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.

On 30 June 2022, the Commission released the new Sepsis Clinical Care Standard. The new standard is a ‘game changer’ that will ensure healthcare workers recognise sepsis as a medical emergency.

Many people have never heard of sepsis, but it kills more Australians every year than road traffic accidents or stroke. This summary backgrounder and Q&A provides an overview of this life-threatening condition, how you can get it and the longer term impacts on people.

The Sepsis Clinical Care Standard will help to ensure that patients with signs and symptoms of sepsis are recognised early, and receive rapid treatment and coordinated care to prevent organ failure, disability or death.