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CMO MESSAGE On World Hand Hygiene Day this Sunday 5 May 2024, we recognise efforts across the globe to share knowledge about hand hygiene, and to reduce the spread of harmful germs. - Conjoint Associate Professor Carolyn Hullick, Chief Medical Officer

Have you registered for the online launch of Australia’s first standard for the use of psychotropic medicines in people with cognitive disability or impairment on 9 May?

Share input on the draft Aged Care IPC Guide by Wednesday 15 May 2024.

CEO MESSAGE On behalf of the Commission, I am delighted to welcome Professor Christine Kilpatrick AO as our new Board Chair for a five-year term.  - Conjoint Professor Anne Duggan, CEO 

You are invited to the online launch of the first national Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard, hosted by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.

The Commission, in collaboration with the National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council (NPAAC), is revising the Requirements for medical pathology services (Third Edition 2018) (RMPS).

The Commission has released a range of practical resources to support CMO service providers, consumers and carers, and accrediting agencies.

If you haven’t already participated, you are encouraged to give your feedback to this consultation, which will close 16 February 2024.

Join our webinar to find out how the community sector can implement the National Safety and Quality Mental Health Standards for Community Managed Organisations (NSQMHCMO Standards).

Read the Summer 2024 issue of Commission eNews.

Read the latest edition of Person-centred care insights.