Australians seeking guidance on open disclosure in health care can now refer to new resources developed by the Commission, in collaboration with peak consumer agencies.
On the Radar Issue 602 is now available.
2023
Newsletter
This issue includes items on Hand hygiene for clinical healthcare workers, Hand hygiene for non-clinical healthcare workers, ordering of routine laboratory tests, diagnostic errors, COVID-19 and more.
Also covered are the latest issues of the Future Leaders Communiqué along with early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE and the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.
The Commission has released new resources for consumers and health service organisations to provide quick-reference summaries of the seven healthcare rights.
The Commission has released a new video series to raise awareness about sepsis.
The Commission has released new Easy English resources on the Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears Clinical Care Standard.
The Commission is publishing the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards – Guide for service providers.
The Commission , in consultation with the National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council (NPAAC), has released a new advisory on the structured reporting of COVID‑19 text message results.
All Australian governments are collaborating to streamline clinical trial and research approval processes.
The Commission, in consultation with the National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council (NPAAC), has released a fact sheet on the retention period for coronavirus disease-19 test samples which is now reduced to one week.