The Commission is now operating in accordance with the Caretaker ConventionsExternal link pending the outcome of the 2025 federal election.
This issue includes items on LGBTQ+ inclusion, learning health systems, debriefs, COVID-19 and more.
Also covered are the latest issues of The Journal for Healthcare Quality, Patient Experience Journal, Healthcare Quarterly, and Health Expectations along with early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the USA’s AHRQ.
The Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard provides guidance on how to reduce preventable stillbirth, and how to offer the best bereavement care.
This infographic highlights the impact of stillbirth on Australian families and how to reduce the risk of stillbirth.
On 4 November 2022, the Commission released the first national Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard to reduce rates of stillbirth and remove the culture of silence.
The standard provides a framework for healthcare practitioners to identify stillbirth risks, communicate effectively with women about reducing risk, discuss clinical investigations after stillbirth, and provide support after perinatal loss.
Show your support for the clinical care standard by downloading and sharing the content on your website, social networks or within your health service. You are encouraged to use these resources to raise awareness about the new standard and best practice care for stillbirth.
The Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard includes links to resources that may help healthcare services and clinicians to implement the standard. These resources are listed under the relevant quality statements below.
The Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard includes links to resources that may help healthcare services and clinicians to implement the standard. These resources fall broadly into the following categories: