Incident management
An incident is an event or circumstance that resulted, or could have resulted, in unintended or unnecessary harm to a patient or consumer; or a complaint, loss or damage.
CARAlert collects, analyses and reports on nationally agreed priority organisms with critical resistances to last-line antimicrobials.
Latest AURA Data
The APAS Data Explorer provides interactive access to the distribution of key antimicrobial resistances across Australia using map-based visualisations.
The Osteoarthritis of the Knee Clinical Care Standard provides guidance to clinicians and healthcare service managers on how to diagnose and treat knee osteoarthritis.
How should care be given at the end of life?
The Commission is committed to supporting the provision of safe and high-quality end-of-life care. Work in progress includes:
Hospital-acquired complications list
The national list of 16 HACs was developed through a comprehensive process that included:
The following organisations have endorsed the Clinical Care Standard:
Mapping variation is an invaluable tool for understanding how our healthcare system is providing care. Maps of variation in care, derived from information routinely gathered by the health system, show how healthcare use differs across the country and raise important questions about why
The Corporate Plan is updated annually, as part of the strategic planning activities of the Commission. The Commission reports on the key performance indicators and performance targets contained in the Corporate Plan in its Annual Report.