Prevention and management of pressures injuries forms part of the Comprehensive Care Standard.
Updated Falls Guidelines
The Commission is updating the Best Practice Guidelines for Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People (Falls Guidelines).
The National safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards identify a number of risks in the Comprehensive Care Standard.
The risks in the NSQHS Standards include cognitive, behavioural, mental and physiological such as:
This Consensus Statement is based on the National Consensus Statement: Essential elements of safe and high-quality end-of-life care and acknowledges that there are additional considerations, principles and actions required to provide optimal care to children at t
Overview
The National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for safe high-quality end-of-life care describes a best practice approach to caring for people who are at the end of their life.
Find links to free end-of-life care training and other resources from around Australia on this page.
The way that comprehensive care is delivered should be reviewed at the end of the care episode but it may also need to be reviewed during the episode of care if there are changes in the patient’s condition, expectations, needs, diagnoses or prognosis, or if the care plan is ineffective.
Patients will require different health care depending on their individual needs, preferences and goals. It is important that care is provided continuously and collaboratively in line with the patients' diagnoses, agreed goals of care and the comprehensive care plan.
Comprehensive care plans reflect shared decisions made with patients, carers and families about the tests, interventions, treatments and other activities needed to achieve the goals of care.