This issue includes items on COVID-19, cultural wellbeing, healing and rehabilitation, palliative care, diagnosis, stroke care and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, along with online first papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE.

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.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, hand hygiene, infection prevention and control, and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of the Future Leaders Communiqué, Journal for Healthcare Quality, Pediatric Quality & Safety, Healthcare Quarterly, and Health Affairs, along with online first papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care.

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

This issue includes items on COVID-19, the new Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard, falls, mental health nursing, medication safety, antibiotics/antimicrobials, patient safety event investigation and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of the Patient Experience Journal, along with online first 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 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 issue includes items on COVID-19, aged care, consumers and patients, pharmacogenomics, maternity care, cognitive impairment, medication safety, transitions of care, diagnosis, digital health, clinical quality registries, trauma-informed care  and more.

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.