This fact sheet provides guidance on how an incident arising from a clinical trial is identified, reported, and managed in Health Service Organisations (HSOs).

This issue includes items on the updated Preventing falls and harm from falls best practice in older people: Best Practice Guidelines, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), audit and feedback, prevention, patient-centred care, partnering with consumers, intimate partner violence, and more. Along with the latest from Clinical Communiqué, BMJ Leader, Emergency Medicine Australasia, and International Journal for Quality in Health Care.

Spirometry is a common lung function test used to monitor and diagnose lung and airway conditions. This factsheet includes practical strategies to help reduce the risk of infection transmission during spirometry testing.

This fact sheet provides practical strategies for the safe use of CLONazepam oral liquid in clinical practice and includes standardised recommendations for the safe prescribing, dispensing and administering of CLONazepam oral liquid for clinicians and health service organisations.

STORY OF EXCELLENCE

Time is everything when it comes to stroke care. Realising they were not treating patients within the recommended timeframes, the Stroke Services team at University Hospital Geelong acted. This included an overhaul of the stroke pathway and staging real-time Code Stroke simulations.

The 10th Anniversary Clinical Care Standards Excellence Awards were announced in July 2025. 

STORY OF EXCELLENCE

Communication gaps can arise when patients leave hospital and return to the care of their GP. This may lead to patients using opioids for longer than intended. Opioid management plans (OMPs) are a tool to address this. Austin Health integrated OMPs into the workflow of their electronic medical records system. The team deployed user testing to emphasise the tool was here to help, not to hinder, and the data speaks for itself.