NSW co-branded poster about contact infection control precautions.

This resource provides an overview of the types of personal protective equipment (PPE) used and patient placement requirements for standard precautions and for transmission-based precautions. A local risk assessment should always be undertaken to determine the most appropriate PPE and patient placement for the delivery of care. 

This issue includes items on the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards user guide for acute and community mental health services, the UK’s Women’s Health Strategy, medication safety, falls, decision support, patient decision aids, virtual care, COVID-19 and more.

The PBS eCMC project is to support electronic prescribing of chemotherapy medicines in hospitals and other defined care settings. The proposed information requirements are a list of data entry fields that must be available within oncology systems to support electronic prescribing as part of the conformance requirements set by the Australian Digital Health Agency. 

This issue includes items on health care utilisation, digital health, paediatric emergency departments, health care worker wellbeing, acute coronary syndromes, clinical deterioration, cancer diagnosis, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are new issues of BMJ Quality & Safety and the online first papers from BMJ Quality & Safety along with the latest from the UK’s NICE.

In the new Infection Prevention and Control Modules, you can check your quiz answers before submitting them without having to start the module again or opening the module in a separate screen.

The Commission invites prospective authors to submit an abstract for WHO World Patient Safety Day 2022. Submit your abstract by emailing it as an attachment to wpsdabstracts@safetyandquality.gov.au.

This issue includes items on an updated Health workforce screening and immunisation for vaccine-preventable diseases elearning module, value-based psychology, insulin, adverse events, maternity care, long term care, diagnosis, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are news issues of Clinical Communiqué, Journal for Health Services Research & Policy and Healthcare Policy and the online first papers from BMJ Quality & Safety along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and Health Security Agency.