The 2022 APS employee census was undertaken between 9 May and 10 June 2022.
This issue includes items on the forthcoming launch of the Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard, consultation on a Sustainable Healthcare module, a new online User Guide for Reviewing Clinical Variation, health workforce, health and climate shocks, medication management, COVID-19 and more.
Also covered are the latest issue of Clinical Communiqué and early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE and NIHR and the USA’s AHRQ.
The Annual Report 2021-22 provides an overview of our performance, governance arrangements, organisational structure and financial statements for the past financial year.
A list of members in the Topic Working Group supporting the development of the clinical care standard aiming to reduce inappropriate use of psychotropic medicines for behaviour.
Bimonthly data update 29 provides data submitted to CARAlert for the reporting period 1 July 2022 to 31 August 2022. This data is able to be used to inform, and support, the prevention and containment of antimicrobial resistance.
The Commission engaged the Climate and Health Alliance (CAHA) and Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI) to conduct a review of existing policies and literature, to better understand the potential safety and quality implications and solutions facing health service organisations related to climate change and the associated extreme weather events and changing patterns of disease.
Overview
The Module provides a framework of actions for health service organisations to integrate environmental sustainability and climate resilience strategies to deliver high-quality care.
The Module has been developed to apply in any healthcare setting across Australia. It leverages the organisation’s existing clinical governance framework for its implementation. It can be applied along with other national safety and quality standards with a robust clinical governance framework, such as the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards or the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards.
This issue includes items on the forthcoming launch of the Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard, polypharmacy, medication safety, falls prevention, stigma, cyber security and health care, COVID-19 and more.
Also covered are the latest issue of BMJ Quality & Safety and early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the latest from the UK’s NICE.