The purpose of this systematic literature review was to examine the causes that contribute to leave events from health care services and understand the current recommendations that may reduce rates of leave events for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians.

Display the Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights on your health service’s TV monitors and digital signs.

This survey tool provides Australian health service organisations with a set of 14 principles supported by a variety of risk reduction strategies. The tool should be used in conjunction with the Principles for the safe selection and storage of medicines – Guidance and survey tool.

This guidance outlines strategies and principles developed to address safe selection and storage of all medicines, including look-alike, sound-alike (LASA) medicines.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, telehealth, aged care and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of the International Journal for Quality in Health and BMJ Quality &Safety along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health.

This flowchart provides guidance for selecting suitable cleaning product for environmental cleaning in health service organisations.

Environmental cleaning is a key component of standard precautions; the first-line in infection prevention and control in the healthcare environment. Updated July 2020.

Environmental cleaning is a key component of standard precautions, the first-line in infection prevention and control in health care. Auditing of cleaning practice is an important part of this process.