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The National Medicines Symposium 2024 session recordings are now available. 

We are excited to launch the second series of our Person-centred Care in Practice webinars. In the first episode, we will hear from Western Health who will discuss their Lived Experience Advisor Program (LEAP).

Read the November 2024 issue of NSQHS Standards News.

CEO MESSAGE On behalf of the Commission, I am delighted to announce that we are celebrating 10 years of Clinical Care Standards in Australia. - Conjoint Professor Anne Duggan, CEO

New fact sheets are now available to support the implementation of the Australian Framework for National Clinical Quality Registries 2024.

Join the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) during World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW) from 18 – 24 November.

The Commission invites you to join our two-part webinar series on the implementation of the National Clinical Trials Governance Framework (Governance Framework).

Are you a health professional passionate about improving patient outcomes? Your insights can help improve coordinated care, discharge planning, and follow up care for people with sepsis and those bereaved by sepsis.

The full program for the National Medicines Symposium 2024 is live.

Read the Spring 2024 issue of Commission eNews.

Today, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care released the NSQHS Standards User Guide for the Health Care of People with Intellectual Disability.

Today the Commission has published the first national standard to support better diagnosis and management of the condition – the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clinical Care Standard.

You are invited to participate in the Commission’s public consultation to review guidelines for critical results management of pathology and diagnostic imaging.

Next week, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care is releasing the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clinical Care Standard.

The Commission’s theme for IPC Week 2024, from 13 to 19 October, is ‘Move the needle on IPC by breaking the chain of infection!’

There's still time to secure your place at the National Medicines Symposium on 19 November 2024.

CEO MESSAGE On behalf of the Commission, I'm delighted to announce that we have signed an historic Joint Statement to reduce the health system’s carbon emissions. - Conjoint Professor Anne Duggan, CEO

The Commission is proud to release the Medication without harm – WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge Status Report. This report highlights Australia’s significant progress towards reducing medication errors and adverse drug events, a critical goal of the WHO Global Health Challenge.

Public consultation is now open until Sunday 27 October 11:59pm (AEDT).

You are invited to the online launch of the first national Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clinical Care Standard.