The inaugural meeting of the NSQHS Standards Project Advisory Committee was held on 19 March 2025 via videoconference.

Download the Highlights Report for a national summary of key findings from the Altas Focus Report: COPD.

This issue includes items on mental health, stroke, governance, communication, nursing, and more.
Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, Australian Journal of Primary Health, Health Affairs, Health Policy, International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.

This tool outlines the range of cognitive, psychological and physical symptoms that people may experience after sepsis. The tool is designed to enable clinicians to recognise post sepsis syndrome and support holistic care planning and recovery.

A companion to the Primary Care Screening Tool, this tool outlines the time critical actions that should be taken by primary care clinicians when they suspect that a patient has sepsis. It includes a checklist to record what actions have been take and when.

This tool is designed to support primary care clinicians to assess patients who have signs or symptoms of infection for sepsis. The resource outlines key risk factors for adult, maternal and paediatric sepsis.

The 2024 annual report provides the results of analyses of data on confirmed critical antimicrobial resistances (CARs) submitted to the National Alert System for Critical Antimicrobial Resistances (CARAlert) for 2024, and trend data from 2017.

Released May 2025