People with intellectual disability are often at higher risk of adverse effects from medications as the information about their medicine may be difficult to understand.

This issue includes items on preventive healthcare, quality improvement, infection prevention and control, digital transformation, primary care, healthcare in prison, affordability, antimicrobial resistance, opioids, quality use of medicines, climate, COVID-19, and more. 
Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, Australian Health Review, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Health Affairs and the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ Effective Health Care program.

This fact sheet has been developed to provide information about the current oral opioid medicine shortages being experienced in Australia. The fact sheet aims to assist consumers, their families and/or carers understand the oral opioid medicine shortages and the impact it has on the health care they receive.

This guidance provides nurses with information on conservation strategies and safety considerations related to the oral opioid medicines shortages and disruption to supply in Australia.

This guidance provides pharmacists with information on conservation strategies and safety considerations related to the oral opioid medicines shortages and disruption to supply in Australia.

This guidance provides prescribers with information on conservation strategies and safety considerations related to the oral opioid medicines shortages and disruption to supply in Australia.