This issue includes items on COVID-19, sepsis, World Sepsis Day, the revised Delirium Clinical Care Standard, clinical variation, patient experience, the Australian Hospital Patient Experience Question Set (AHPEQS), and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of Public Health Research & Practice and Health Affairs 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.

Applicants should read the document titled Policy - Approval under the Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation (AHSSQA) Scheme to conduct assessments before completing this application form.

On 9 September 2021, the Commission released the updated Delirium Clinical Care Standard (2021).

Update 23 provides data submitted to CARAlert for the reporting period 1 May 2021 to 30 June 2021to support prevention and containment of antimicrobial resistance.