Comprehensive care at the end of life
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This course aims to provide an overview of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards for assessors and health service organisations' workforce. It is self-paced and includes learning material such as case studies, videos and tips for implementing the NSQHS Standards.
The Basics of infection prevention and control module provides foundation infection prevention and control knowledge.
Medication reconciliation
Adverse drug reactions
Safety and quality training
The Escalation Mapping Template (EMT) will help to determine which processes for recognising and responding to deterioration in a person’s mental state are working effectively, and identify if there are any problems and/or gaps in current processes.
Information and decision support tools for medicines
Digital mental health services accredited to the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards have been independently assessed to ensure they have systems in place to meet the necessary safety and quality requirements.
The National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI) operates a Help Desk to support users of the NHHI Learning Management System (LMS) and the Hand Hygiene Compliance Application (HHCApp).
The Help Desk team endeavours to respond to your enquiry as quickly as possible. You will receive a response within 5 business days.
The Commission has developed a series of resources on infection prevention and control (IPC) for aged care service providers and staff.
Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Week is held during the third week of October each year to highlight the importance of preventing infections. The theme for IPC Week 2024 is ‘Move the needle on IPC by breaking the chain of infection!’.
World Hand Hygiene Day is held annually on 5 May. The 'Save Lives: Clean Your Hands' global campaign was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2009.
New resources are now available for World Hand Hygiene Day 2025.
From 1 January 2023, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) became the custodian of a range of Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) functions, expanding our role in QUM stewardship. This follows the redesign of the Quality Use of Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Pathology (QUDTP) Program outlined in the 2022–23 Federal Budget.
Status updates for each function can be found below.
Effective infection prevention and control practices reduce the risk of transmission of infections between patients, healthcare workers and others in the healthcare environment.
Comprehensive care at the end of life
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has developed resources for health services to support implementation of the National Clinical Trials Governance Framework.
The Commission, through QUM Learning (formerly NPS MedicineWise), provides a range of education and training resources on medication safety and quality use of medicines for healthcare professionals and students.
