Today is World Sepsis Day – an opportunity to unite globally in the fight against sepsis.

World Patient Safety Day is an initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO). This day calls for global solidarity in the improvement of patient safety. 

Two new reports from the Commission reveal a decline in dispensing of high-risk medicines over five years but continuing variation across the country.

The Commission's User Guide for Reviewing Clinical Variation is now available in a new interactive online format, making it easier for health services to use data to support appropriate care and access practical case studies.

The Commission is pleased to announce three organisations have been approved to conduct accreditation assessments to the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards.

Today the Commission releases six new action guides to help service providers understand and implement the Digital Mental Health Standards.

The Commission has released two new quality improvement tools to help healthcare services implement the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard launched earlier this year.

Three national quality use of medicines (QUM) publications have been updated to improve the quality and safety of medication management for all Australians.

From March 2023, all heath service organisations conducting clinical trials will need to implement the National Clinical Trials Governance Framework in alignment with assessment to the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.

From 1 January 2023, the Commission became the custodian of Quality Use of Medicine (QUM) functions under the Australian Government’s revised Quality Use of Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Pathology Program. This included the ongoing management of the MedicineInsight data collection.