CNO MESSAGE
Today we are pleased to join the healthcare sector globally in celebrating International Nurses Day (IND) 2025, focused on the theme 'Our Nurses. Our Future. Caring for nurses strengthens economies'.
- Adjunct Professor Anna Thornton, Chief Nursing Officer
This issue includes items on mental health, stroke, governance, communication, nursing, and more.
Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, Australian Journal of Primary Health, Health Affairs, Health Policy, International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.
This 1-page editable PDF outlines the range of cognitive, psychological and physical symptoms that people may experience after sepsis. The tool is designed to enable clinicians to recognise post sepsis syndrome and support holistic care planning and recovery.
A companion to the Primary Care Screening Tool, this editable PDF outlines the time critical actions that should be taken by primary care clinicians when they suspect that a patient has sepsis. It includes a checklist to record what actions have been take and when.
An editable PDF designed to support primary care clinicians to assess patients who have signs or symptoms of infection for sepsis. The resource outlines key risk factors for adult, maternal and paediatric sepsis.
The Commission is undertaking a consultation on the Australian Safety and Quality Medical Imaging Accreditation (ASQMIA) Scheme. Medical Imaging providers will be assessed against the National Safety and Quality Medical Imaging (NSQMI) Standards under the ASQMIA Scheme. This scheme will replace the Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme (DIAS).
The Stage 1 consultation is open until Friday 18 July 2025 while the Stage 2 consultation will occur in August 2025.
The 2024 annual report provides the results of analyses of data on confirmed critical antimicrobial resistances (CARs) submitted to the National Alert System for Critical Antimicrobial Resistances (CARAlert) for 2024, and trend data from 2017.
- Released May 2025
The Commission has developed a fact sheet on the storage and management of concentrated 80% phenol in Australian medical imaging service.
Variation in itself is not necessarily bad, and it can be good if it reflects health services responding to differences in patient preferences or underlying needs.
RACGP Standards for general practices (5th edition) indicators where improvements were required by general practices before accreditation was awarded under the National General Practice Accreditation (NGPA) Scheme.