The National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards aim to improve the quality of digital mental health service provision, and to protect service users and their support people from harm.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, surgical prophylaxis, antimicrobial prescribing and antimicrobial resistance, patient journeys, statins, hospital medication errors, culture, Indigenous health workforce, precision medicine, unnecessary hospitalisations, and more.

This fact sheet gives service providers an overview of the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards, what constitutes a digital mental health service, and how service providers can use the NSQDMH Standards.

This report provides an update on data submitted to CARAlert for the reporting period 1 July 2020 to 31 August 2020, and complements previous analyses of and updates on CARAlert data. The data update provides information to support prevention and containment of antimicrobial resistance.

This report presents analyses of data collected for the 2019 Aged Care National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey (AC NAPS) and includes comparisons with 2016, 2017 and 2018 AC NAPS data.

This report includes analyses of detailed information about prescribing practices for surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis in 2019. The findings can be used to guide quality improvement programs and improve overall care for patients having surgery.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, opioid stewardship, the draft Acute Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard, person-centred team-based care, electronic health records, diagnostic performance, weekend admissions, paediatric adverse events, and more.

Also covered: the latest issue of Health Affairs, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health and the latest from the UK’s NICE and NIHR and the USA’s ARHQ.