The patient information brochure provides useful information for patients and carers. It defines what sepsis is, the causes and prevention of sepsis, and how it is treated. The brochure also outlines the groups at higher risk of developing sepsis.

Healthcare professionals and health service organisations are encouraged to download and display the sepsis information posters. These posters aim to raise awareness around sepsis and its early symptoms.

A poster for for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples about the signs and symptoms of sepsis.

This issue includes items on the new Sepsis Clinical Care Standard, health literacy, COVID-19, consumer health technology and more.

Also covered are news issues of Healthcare Papers and the Journal for Healthcare Quality,  and the online first papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care along the latest from the UK’s NICE and NIHR.

This resource provides an overview of the key actions to prevent and manage infections caused by carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) in the acute care setting. It summarises the Recommendations for the control of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales.

This resource provides information to nurses and doctors about strategies to prevent and manage infections caused by carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in the acute care setting.

Australian broadcaster and game show host John Burgess considers himself one of the lucky survivors of sepsis who “dodged a bullet”. He is an advocate of the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard, released by the Commission on 30 June 2022.

Dr Lorraine Anderson, Medical Director at the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services in Western Australia, explains why managing patients with sepsis in a remote community is high stakes – and how the national Sepsis Clinical Care Standard released on 30 June 2022 will help.