This document maps the National Safety and Quality Cosmetic Surgery Standards (Cosmetic Surgery Standards) with the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards. The purpose of the document is to assist service providers who are already assessed to the NSQHS Standards to implement the Cosmetic Surgery Standards.
Implementation of the Cosmetic Surgery Standards is required to fulfil accreditation requirements.
This issue includes items on the TGA’s transition to paperless access for unapproved therapeutic goods, World Hand Hygiene Day, the WHO Patient Safety Rights Charter, prostate cancer, digital health equity, antipsychotics and dementia, antimicrobial stewardship, clinical guidelines, COVID-19, and more.
Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, and The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
On World Hand Hygiene Day this Sunday 5 May, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) urges Australians to continue to practise good hand hygiene as the first-line defence to reduce the spread of harmful germs.
Practising good hand hygiene remains as important as ever, according to infectious diseases physician Professor Peter Collignon AM, Senior Medical Advisor for the Commission.
MEDIA RELEASE
On World Hand Hygiene Day this Sunday 5 May, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care urges Australians to continue to practise good hand hygiene as the first-line defence to reduce the spread of harmful germs.
CMO MESSAGE
On World Hand Hygiene Day this Sunday 5 May 2024, we recognise efforts across the globe to share knowledge about hand hygiene, and to reduce the spread of harmful germs.
- Conjoint Associate Professor Carolyn Hullick, Chief Medical Officer
Adjunct Professor Anna Thornton was appointed Chief Nursing Officer at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care in April 2024.
Have you registered for the online launch of Australia’s first standard for the use of psychotropic medicines in people with cognitive disability or impairment on 9 May?
This document maps the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards first edition with the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards (Primary and Community Healthcare Standards).