Aged Care Quality Standards

On the Radar Issue 675 is now available.

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As Australia's population continues to age, the need for more appropriate and safer medicine use is critical. The National Medicines Symposium 2024, hosted by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, will address this issue under the theme ‘Appropriate Use of Medicines in an Ageing Population.’

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.

On the Radar Issue 674 is now available.

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

Read the Spring 2024 issue of Commission eNews.

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.

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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.

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.