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Purpose

To ensure that women who experience a third or fourth degree perineal tear receive appropriate follow-up care after leaving hospital, to optimise their physical, emotional, psychological and sexual health. To ensure that appropriate referral pathways are in place.

Purpose

The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards

2021
Publication, report or update

This issue includes items on COVID-19, sepsis, acute behavioural disturbance antimicrobial prescribing, antimicrobial stewardship, dementia, pathology, stakeholder/consumer engagement, adverse drug events, medication safety, Clostridioides difficile, patient safety in prehospital care, and more.

Modifiable lifestyle risk factors contribute to more than 50% of bowel cancer cases. The Commission has developed these user friendly bowel cancer prevention resources for consumers to identify actions that they can take to reduce their risk. 

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