This issue includes items on the PaRIS Health Survey. The new Partnering with Consumers: A guide for consumers, palliative care, frailty, COVID-19 and more. Also covered are the latest issues of Australian Prescriber, Public Health Research & Practice, Journal for Healthcare Quality and Health Expectations and early online papers from the International Journal for Quality in Health Care along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and the New Zealand Health Quality and Safety Commission.

Portrait image of Conjoint Professor Anne Duggan, Chief Executive Officer for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.

Portrait image of Conjoint Professor Carolyn Hullick, Chief Medical Officer for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.

The Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard describes what each quality statement means for consumers, clinicians, and healthcare services. It provides indicators to support local monitoring and includes information about using clinical care standards.

This Guide has been developed by consumers for consumers. It explains how to build and strengthen consumer partnerships at all levels of the health system.

This issue includes items on the updated Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard, consultation on the draft NSQHS Standards Guide for Ambulance Health Services, the forthcoming National Medicines Symposium, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of Healthcare Policy and Health Affairs and early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care along with the latest from the UK’s NICE the USA’s AHRQ.