The standard outlines framework for the communication of pathology information within the request-test-report cycle.

This standard, together with the Tier 2 document Requirements for medical pathology services, sets out the expected policies, procedures and practices laboratories are to use when packaging and transporting pathology specimens and associated materials.

The standard sets out the expected level of practice required by laboratories for heritable and non-heritable human genetic variation medical testing.

This standard outlines practice standards that assure the safety, quality and efficacy of transfusion testing, associated transfusion laboratory practice, and non-transfusion related blood group immunohaematology testing. 

This guidance for health service organisations provides options and strategies for conserving medicines primarily in the acute care setting. 

This issue includes items on the draft National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards Guide for Healthcare Services, electronic prescribing systems, medication safety, antimicrobial stewardship, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are recent issues of the Future Leaders Communiqué and the Australian Journal of Primary Health,  early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety along with the latest from the UK’s NICE.

An Easy Read document for people with intellectual disability. It aims to support people with intellectual disability, their supporters and clinicians to talk about the person’s disability and what they need to make their health care accessible.

This poster can be displayed in health services to inform clinicians about people with intellectual disability and the provision of inclusive health care that is safe and high quality.

Healthcare professionals can use this fact sheet to inform making reasonable adjustments for a person’s intellectual disability to create an inclusive environment and facilitate meeting the NSQHS Standards.