The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care is conducting consultations on the minimum core elements of the national SSA. The aim of the single national SSA is to ensure a single process for local site risk assessment and authorisation for health-related human research.

The Clinical Trials Project Reference Group endorsed in principle the national SSA minimum core elements with agreed amendments for implementation via the National One Stop Shop subject to further feedback through the second phase of national consultations.

Bimonthly Update 26 provides data submitted to CARAlert for the reporting period 1 January 2022 to 28 February 2022. This data is able to be used to inform, and support, the prevention and containment of antimicrobial resistance.

Presentation slides for the launch of the Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard.

The Sepsis Clinical Care Standard contains seven quality statements and a set of indicators to ensure sepsis is recognised early and patients receive coordinated, best-practice care to reduce the risk of death or ongoing morbidity.

On 27 April 2022, the Commission released the new national Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard.

This brochure has been designed to provide mental health workers with information on the importance of hand hygiene as part of the delivery of health care. The development of this fact sheet has been informed by expert infection control advice as well as end user testing.