To provide guidance on conducting hybrid assessments to the NSQHS Standards to accrediting agencies and health service organisations .

The Cataract Clinical Care Standard contains eight quality statements and six indicators to improve pathways of care and access for people with clinically significant cataract.

This fact sheet explains how the standard applies in all healthcare settings where care is provided to patients with cataract, including primary care, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Services, hospitals and privately-operated eye clinics.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, the new National Standard for Labelling Dispensed Medicines, the new Delivering and Supporting Comprehensive End-of-life Care user guide, primary care harms, lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic for hospital care and for health care leaders, health information technology and medications, antibiotic overuse, antibiotics for urinary tract infections (UTI), conceptualisation of  benefits of treatments, and more.

The Primary and Community Healthcare Standards aim to protect the public from harm and improve the quality of health care delivered by describing a nationally consistent framework, which all primary and community healthcare services can apply when delivering health care. Where implemented, patients can be confident that their healthcare service is committed to delivering and continuously improving the safety and quality of services.