Sentinel events are a subset of adverse patient safety events that are wholly preventable and result in serious harm to, or the death of, a patient. The purpose of sentinel event reporting is to ensure public accountability and transparency and drive national improvements in patient safety.

This poster illustrates the chain of transmission of infection for acute respiratory infections and highlights how to interrupt the spread of infection.

The poster was developed in conjunction with NSW Health Clinical Excellence Commission.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, bundled payments, integrated health and social care, shared decision making, telemedicine, clinical quality registries and more.

The purpose of this policy is to outline the requirements for accrediting agencies in relation to managing and preventing conflicts of interest.

The Commission has developed Australia's response to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication without harm.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to support health service organisations with implementation of partial easing of restrictions on elective surgery, investigations and procedures and standard and transmission-based infection prevention and control precautions.

This resource was last updated on 5 August 2020.