The Commission is now operating in accordance with the Caretaker ConventionsExternal link pending the outcome of the 2025 federal election.
Show your support for the clinical care standard by downloading and sharing the content on your website, social networks or within your health service. You are encouraged to use these resources to raise awareness about the new standard and best practice care for low back pain.
The Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard was developed by the Commission, in partnership with health service organisations, clinicians and consumers. See endorsing organisations
This issue includes items on the forthcoming Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard, the new UK’s Patient Safety Incident Response Framework, self-harm, arterial lines, unacceptable behaviour between healthcare workers, emergency departments, resilient healthcare, COVID-19 and more.
Also covered are the latest issues of BMJ Quality & Safety and the Australian Journal of Primary Health along with the latest from the UK’s NICE.
This fact sheet provides practical information about how to use the Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights in your health service.
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The Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard aims to ensure the safe and appropriate use of psychotropic medicines in people with cognitive disability or impairment.
This report provides analyses of trends for resistance to third-generation cephalosporins, such as ceftriaxone, in E. coli and K. pneumoniae captured through APAS from 2006 to 2021.
The Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard contains eight quality statements describing the care that should be received by patients aged 16 years and over who present with low back pain, with or without leg pain.
This issue includes items on the forthcoming Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard, implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for patient safety, diagnostic safety, spinal cord stimulators, COVID-19 and more.
Also covered are the latest issues of the Journal of Patient Safety and Pediatric Quality & Safety along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.
The Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) Consumer and Patient experience Unit have partnered with the NSLHD Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Service to create a unique and culturally appropriate and tailored version of the Australian Charter of Health Care Rights (the Charter).