The Commission is now operating in accordance with the Caretaker ConventionsExternal link pending the outcome of the 2025 federal election.
The Escalation Mapping Template (EMT) is a quality improvement tool to assess the efficacy of health service providers’ systems to recognise and respond to deterioration in a person’s mental state.
The Excel version of the EMT can be downloaded below.
On 30 November 2020, the Commission announced the introduction of Australia's first National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards.
This issue includes items on COVID-19, the new Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard, National Safety and Quality Primary Healthcare Standards, hospital worker behaviour, patient perceptions and more.
Also covered are the latest issues of BMJ Quality & Safety, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Journal of Patient Safety, and Healthcare Policy, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the latest from the UK’s NICE and NIHR and the USA’s ARHQ.
To ensure that women who experience a third or fourth degree perineal tear receive appropriate follow-up care after leaving hospital, to optimise their physical, emotional, psychological and sexual health. To ensure that appropriate referral pathways are in place.
To ensure that third and fourth degree perineal tears are repaired by an appropriately trained clinician and in accordance with evidence-based guidelines.
To ensure that all women who give birth vaginally are offered an examination, in a respectful way, by a clinician trained to accurately identify and classify third and fourth degree perineal tears using the RCOG classification.
To ensure that decisions about an instrumental vaginal birth consider the individual clinical circumstances, and the benefits and risks of each option, including the risk of a third or fourth degree perineal tear, and the potential benefit of episiotomy.
To ensure that women are appropriately assessed and provided evidence-based care during pregnancy, labour and birth to reduce the likelihood of a third or fourth degree perineal tear.
To ensure that women receive information during pregnancy about the potential of a third or fourth degree perineal tear, relevant risk factors and evidence-based care to reduce their risk. To support shared decision making and informed consent.