The Commission is now operating in accordance with the Caretaker ConventionsExternal link pending the outcome of the 2025 federal election.
The 2024 APS employee census was undertaken between 6 May 2024 and 7 June 2024. As part of our commitment to making the Commission an even better place to work, we are implementing an agency-action plan to address areas where we can improve.
The quality statements in the COPD Clinical Care Standard are based on the best available evidence and guideline recommendations at the time of development. This document summarises the relevant evidence sources for each of the 10 quality statements.
The COPD Clinical Care Standard includes 10 quality statements and associated indicators to support best-practice care for COPD, reduce potentially preventable hospitalisations and improve overall outcomes for people with COPD.
This resource accompanies the COPD Clinical Care Standard. It describes what the 10 quality statements mean for healthcare services.
This resource accompanies the COPD Clinical Care Standard. It describes what the 10 quality statements mean for clinicians.
The COPD Clinical Care Standard contains 10 quality statements. This guide explains each quality statement and what it means for people living with COPD.
You are invited to participate in the Commission’s public consultation to review guidelines for critical results management of pathology and diagnostic imaging.
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One in 13 Australians over the age of 40 have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but alarmingly only half of them know they have it.
Awareness of this incurable lung disease – which makes it difficult to breathe – lags considerably behind other serious chronic health conditions, despite COPD being a leading cause of avoidable hospitalisations.
The Annual Report 2023-24 provides an overview of our performance, governance arrangements, organisational structure and financial statements for the past financial year.
This resource provides background on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the common lung condition that is the underlying cause for more than 7,600 deaths each year in Australia.
The Commission is due to publish the first national Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clinical Care Standard on 17 October 2024.