2022
Guide, user guide or guidelines
This guidance for health service organisations provides options and strategies for conserving medicines primarily in the acute care setting.
About antimicrobial resistance
2023
Newsletter
This issue includes items on the draft National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards Guide for Healthcare Services, electronic prescribing systems, medication safety, antimicrobial stewardship, COVID-19 and more.
Also covered are recent issues of the Future Leaders Communiqué and the Australian Journal of Primary Health, early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety along with the latest from the UK’s NICE.
2023
Fact sheet or brochure
An Easy Read document for people with intellectual disability. It aims to support people with intellectual disability, their supporters and clinicians to talk about the person’s disability and what they need to make their health care accessible.
2023
Fact sheet or brochure
This poster can be displayed in health services to inform clinicians about people with intellectual disability and the provision of inclusive health care that is safe and high quality.
2023
Fact sheet or brochure
Healthcare professionals can use this fact sheet to inform making reasonable adjustments for a person’s intellectual disability to create an inclusive environment and facilitate meeting the NSQHS Standards.
2023
Newsletter
This issue includes items on healthcare variation, interprofessional behaviour, indoor air quality, clinical quality registries, precision medicine, end of life care, COVID-19 and more.
Also covered are recent issues of Health Affairs and early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care along with the latest from the USA’s AHRQ and the UK’s NICE.
The Commission's Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) is a first step towards reconciliation and importantly, improving the safety and quality of health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia.
The Commission has supported reforms to the cosmetic surgery sector by developing a national licensing framework and safety and quality standards.
2023
Newsletter
This issue includes items on the waiting times for elective care, venous thromboembolism associated with pregnancy, jaundice in newborns, clinical decision support, antibiotic prescribing, COVID-19 and more.
Also covered are recent issues of Australian Healthcare Review and Nursing Leadership and early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care along with the latest from the USA’s AHRQ and the UK’s NIHR.