This presentation looks at how to change prescribing practices in your hospital.

A discussion about prescribing and deprescribing opioid medicines with Dr Chris Hayes and Dr Damien Zilm.

Opioid prescribing and harm continue to rise in Australia, but GPs and pain specialists can work together to ‘stop the habit’. Find out when to avoid opioids altogether, how to deprescribe opioids, and how to manage difficult conversations with colleagues and consumers.

This document provides an overview of the NPS MedicineWise Opioids program which aims to improve quality use of opioids and reduce associated harms for Australians with chronic non-cancer pain.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, developmental language disorder, transitions of care, quality in virtual care, anaesthesia, safety culture, staff engagement and patient safety and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of Future Leaders Communiqué, Australian Health Review and Health Affairs, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health Care.

The Multi-Purpose Services Aged Care Module (MPS Aged Care Module) has been developed by the Commission in collaboration with the Australian Government, state and territory departments of health, and the Commission’s Multi-Purpose Services Project Advisory Committee. The MPS Aged Care Module describes, in six actions, the requirements of the Aged Care Quality Standards not covered by the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards. It is only applicable to eligible MPS and was endorsed by the Australian Health Minister’s Advisory Council on 7 February 2020.

The APAS – OrgTRx Quick Reference Guide provides instructions for APAS contributors on how to create and export formatted antibiograms.