This issue includes items on COVID-19, bundled payments, integrated health and social care, shared decision making, telemedicine, clinical quality registries and more.

The purpose of this policy is to outline the requirements for accrediting agencies in relation to managing and preventing conflicts of interest.

The Commission has developed Australia's response to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication without harm.

Recognition for exemplar practice in implementing the NSQHS Standards.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to support health service organisations with implementation of partial easing of restrictions on elective surgery, investigations and procedures and standard and transmission-based infection prevention and control precautions.

This resource was last updated on 5 August 2020.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, cultural safety, codeine re-scheduling, psychotropic medicines in residential aged care facilities (RACFs), public reporting of performance data and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of BMJ Quality & Safety and the Australian Journal of Primary Health along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE.

Health service organisations are required to develop and implement systems and processes that support patient-clinician discussions about the patient’s preferences for care in the future, to document advance care plans, and to act on advance care plans as part of comprehensive care delivery and for the NSQHS Standards.