The Commission is concerned for older people and people with disability in all settings where psychotropic medicines are being prescribed inappropriately as a form of restrictive practice to control behaviour.
2022
Tool or template
The Escalation Mapping Template (EMT) is a quality improvement tool to assess the efficacy of health service providers’ systems to recognise and respond to deterioration in a person’s mental state.
The Excel version of the EMT can be downloaded below.
2020
Media release
On 30 November 2020, the Commission announced the introduction of Australia's first National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards.
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
Purpose
To ensure that third and fourth degree perineal tears are repaired by an appropriately trained clinician and in accordance with evidence-based guidelines.
Purpose
To ensure that all women who give birth vaginally are offered an examination, in a respectful way, by a clinician trained to accurately identify and classify third and fourth degree perineal tears using the RCOG classification.
Purpose
To ensure that decisions about an instrumental vaginal birth consider the individual clinical circumstances, and the benefits and risks of each option, including the risk of a third or fourth degree perineal tear, and the potential benefit of episiotomy.
Purpose
To ensure that women are appropriately assessed and provided evidence-based care during pregnancy, labour and birth to reduce the likelihood of a third or fourth degree perineal tear.
Purpose
To ensure that women receive information during pregnancy about the potential of a third or fourth degree perineal tear, relevant risk factors and evidence-based care to reduce their risk. To support shared decision making and informed consent.