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2023
Guide, user guide or guidelines

Are you wanting to address unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures in your health service? Use the  Choosing Wisely implementation toolkit  to make sure all your governance, change management, communications, design, evaluation and intervention needs are covered. It provides you with best-practice information, tools and templates for your project. Read the  Introduction  chapter to learn more about the toolkit. It is divided into an Introduction and 5 chapters with real world case studies to guide you. 

2025
Newsletter

This issue includes items on digital health, advance care planning, and more. Also covered are the latest from Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Australian Health Review, Health Expectations, Health Affairs, International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the UK’s NICE.

Patient experience vs satisfaction

  • Experience is process focused – it captures patients’ self-reported observations and feelings about their interactions with health service workers, environments and processes.

On the Radar Issue 683 is now available. 

2025
Newsletter

This issue includes items on insulin, mental health, maternity care, variation, and more. Also covered are the latest from Healthcare, BMJ Quality & Safety, Nursing Leadership, Health Policy, International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the UK’s NICE and NIHR and the USA’s AHRQ. 

The Department of Health and Aged Care, in collaboration with the National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council (NPAAC) and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, has published the second edition of the Requirements for cervical screening.

2025
Guide, user guide or guidelines

This edition of the Requirements for cervical screening sets out the standards for using human papillomavirus nucleic acid testing as the primary screening method for cervical cancer screening.

The Requirements for cervical screening (Second edition 2024) replaces the following NPAAC pathology standards from 1 February 2025:

The Commission has released one revised and one new advisory for the Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme (DIAS).

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