Consultation on the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (third edition) has commenced.
This Forum Information Sheet is for participants attending our forums. In these forums we want your views on the questions outlined in this document.
The first consultation is open from 9 July to 30 September 2025. Visit our Consultation page.
Consultation on the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (third edition) has commenced.
You are invited to provide written feedback to the Commission, addressing all or any of the following questions. Your input will help shape the new standards.
The first consultation is open from 9 July to 30 September 2025. Visit our Consultation page.
Macquarie University conducted a Rapid Literature Review in March 2024, highlighting the widespread adoption of pathology Point of Care Testing (PoCT) devices in Australia. The Executive Summary highlights the significant benefits of PoCT, but also notable safety and quality challenges.
This fact sheet provides guidance on how an incident arising from a clinical trial is identified, reported, and managed in Health Service Organisations (HSOs).
On the Radar Issue 701 is now available.
The first public consultation on the NSQHS Standards (third edition) is now open.
The Commission is undertaking broad consultation on the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (third edition) to improve patient care into the future.
The first consultation opened on 9 July 2025 and closes on 30 September 2025.
This issue includes items on the updated Preventing falls and harm from falls best practice in older people: Best Practice Guidelines, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), audit and feedback, prevention, patient-centred care, partnering with consumers, intimate partner violence, and more. Along with the latest from Clinical Communiqué, BMJ Leader, Emergency Medicine Australasia, and International Journal for Quality in Health Care.
Spirometry is a common lung function test used to monitor and diagnose lung and airway conditions. This factsheet includes practical strategies to help reduce the risk of infection transmission during spirometry testing.
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has released revised national guidance on how to prevent falls and fall-related injury. This is the first revision of the Falls Guidelines since 2009.
This fact sheet provides practical strategies for the safe use of CLONazepam oral liquid in clinical practice and includes standardised recommendations for the safe prescribing, dispensing and administering of CLONazepam oral liquid for clinicians and health service organisations.