This issue includes items on COVID-19, the AURA 2021 report on antimicrobial use and resistance, blood culture practice, learning from patient safety incidents, medication safety interventions and more.

Also covered is the latest issue of the Journal of Patient Safety along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.

On 27 August 2021, the Commission released the Fourth Australian report on antimicrobial use and resistance in human health (AURA 2021).

This document provides guidance to support temporary collection facilities during the evolving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.

This document provides guidance from the National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council (NPAAC) on the use of point of care testing to support increased testing demand for SARS-CoV-2 during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.

This info graphic highlights the key findings from the third CDI Technical report: Monitoring the national burden of Clostridioides difficile infection in Australian public hospitals: 2016 to 2018.

This report includes analyses of the burden of CDI in Australian public hospitals in 2019.

This document corrects a cross-reference to a table in Figure 2.1: Hazard classification flow chart.

This infographic highlights the key findings from the CDI technical report: Monitoring the national burden of Clostridioides difficile infection in Australian public hospitals: 2016 to 2018. 

This document corrects a footnote in Table 2: Minimum retention times for anatomical pathology.

This document corrects a missing symbol referring to a footnote in Table 2: Minimum retention times for anatomical pathology.