This issue includes items on the CARAlert annual report 2023, maternity and newborn care, heath technology, leadership, compassion, burnout, safety culture, engagement, general practice, outpatient care, sleep, COVID-19, and more. Also covered are the latest from Nursing Leadership, BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health Care.
The Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Clinical Care Standard describes what each quality statement means for consumers, clinicians, and healthcare services. It provides indicators to support local monitoring and includes information about using clinical care standards.
This fact sheet provides examples of schedules for short notice assessments, over an eight-year period.
The 2023 annual report provides the results of analyses of data on confirmed critical antimicrobial resistances (CARs) submitted to the National Alert System for Critical Antimicrobial Resistances (CARAlert) for 2023, and trend data from 2017.
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Service providers using a risk management approach will assess the risks associated with each action in the NSQDMH Standards. The risk assessment findings will help you to prioritise and mitigate risks identified and implement the standards.
This resource accompanies the Heavy Menstrual Bleeding Clinical Care Standard. It describes what the quality statements mean for clinicians and provides indicators to support local quality improvement activity.
This issue includes items on the new Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard, digital technology, remote or telehealth, nursing care, end of life care, patient perspectives, COVID-19, and more.
Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, Journal for Healthcare Quality (JHQ), Health Affairs, Health Affairs Scholar and International Journal for Quality in Health Care along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.
The National Safety and Quality Cosmetic Surgery Standards were partially informed by a rapid review of current literature on patient safety and quality risks for cosmetic surgery, tools, strategies and techniques to address these risks, and the effectiveness of these methods.
Bronte Parkin is a devoted husband turned dementia advocate. His wife, Glenda, a respected educator, was diagnosed with dementia at the age of 56. Their lives took an unforeseen turn as together they navigated the complexities of her illness until her death at the age of 69.