Literature review on safety culture assessment modes
This checklist is to assist assessors when reviewing medication safety actions for organisations using paper-based National Standard Medication Charts (NSMC).
The Annual Report 2021-21 provides an overview of our performance, governance arrangements, organisational structure and financial statements for the past financial year.
This report describes and quantifies incidents that have involved anticoagulants. Incidents have been captured from healthcare settings (primarily hospitals) in states and territories across Australia.
The Analysis of Residential Aged Care Facility Medication Charts 2012 presents research and analysis on medication charts currently in use in Australian residential aged care facilities (RACFs). The aim of the research and analysis was to collect and classify data related to the content and types of medication charts and systems currently in use across a diverse sample of RACFs proportionately representative of the sector.
Webcast launch – 2021
The Primary and Community Healthcare Standards were launched in October 2021. Watch a recording of the webcast below.
On 12 October 2021, the Commission released the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards.
A Topic Working Group has been convened to provide advice to the Commission on this standard. The group is comprised of individuals with relevant expertise and clinical experience as well as consumer representatives.