This national standard describes best practice care for the care of cataract including referral, assessment, decisions about surgery and post-operative care.
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Antimicrobials are important medicines used to treat infections. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious threat to human health and patient safety. Hundreds of people in Australia die each year as a result of AMR.
There are many different tools and resources that can help consumers and healthcare professionals share decisions together.
The Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare was jointly developed by the Commission and the NHMRC. The Guidelines, together with Commission guidance for specific organisms, provide healthcare workers and health service organisations with support to develop tailored local protocols and processes for infection prevention and control.
A series of five Quick-Start Guides enables rapid access to the key requirements for implementation of the National Consensus Statement Essential Elements.
Data on antimicrobial use in Australian hospitals are collected by the National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey (NAPS) and the National Antimicrobial Utilisation Surveillance Program (NAUSP).
NAPS also collects data on antimicrobial use and infections in aged care homes.
The Commission conducted a number of webinars for nurses, colonoscopists, GPs and quality managers from August to October 2020. The purpose of the webinars was to promote the Colonoscopy Clinical Care Standard and the implementation resources developed by the Commission.
The webinar recordings can be viewed below.
Decision support tools can encourage shared decision making by informing discussions between clinicians and consumers.
The Colonoscopy Clinical Care Standard includes nine quality statements describing the care a patient should be offered.
Answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) are provided to support use of the Commission's hand hygiene and infection prevention and control eLearning modules.
Resources for Primary Health Networks (PHNs) to support local services and clinicians using the Osteoarthritis of the Knee Clinical Care Standard.
Find out why the Commission developed the Colonoscopy Clinical Care Standard.