This issue includes items on Hospital-Acquired Complications (HACs), artificial intelligence (AI) and patient safety, cognitive biases in surgery, medical publishing, COIVD-19 and more.

This issue includes items on end-of-life care, health system resilience, primary care, digital health, medication safety, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are recent issues of BMJ Quality & Safety and the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management and early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and NIHR.

The Commission has appointed Conjoint Professor Anne Duggan as the Commission’s new Chief Executive Officer. Professor Duggan has more than 30 years’ experience in the health sector and took on the role of CEO from 27 March 2023.

This issue includes items on patient safety, including patient safety in long-term care facilities, surgical site infection, digital health, learning health systems, primary care, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are recent issues of the Journal of Patient Safety and Healthcare Quarterly and early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety.

The standard outlines framework for the communication of pathology information within the request-test-report cycle.

This standard, together with the Tier 2 document Requirements for medical pathology services, sets out the expected policies, procedures and practices laboratories are to use when packaging and transporting pathology specimens and associated materials.

The standard sets out the expected level of practice required by laboratories for heritable and non-heritable human genetic variation medical testing.

This standard outlines practice standards that assure the safety, quality and efficacy of transfusion testing, associated transfusion laboratory practice, and non-transfusion related blood group immunohaematology testing.