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On the Radar Issue 673 is now available.

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.

On the Radar Issue 672 is now available.

On the Radar Issue 671 is now available.

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.

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One in 13 Australians over the age of 40 have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but alarmingly only half of them know they have it. 

Awareness of this incurable lung disease – which makes it difficult to breathe – lags considerably behind other serious chronic health conditions, despite COPD being a leading cause of avoidable hospitalisations.

On the Radar Issue 670 is now available.

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.

On the Radar Issue 669 is now available.

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.