A template for collecting information about rapid response cases. 

A tool for evaluating staff perceptions of the rapid response system.

This audit tool supports the collection of data for several quality improvement measures.

A template for creating a monitoring plan.

This report draws on data from a wide range of sources, and includes information about key advances in safety and quality in Australia; prevalence of common safety risks to patients; action taken to identify and drive the delivery of appropriate care; and the Commission’s approach to supporting value based healthcare.

The analysis and data provided in this report are limited to public hospitals. The Commission is currently working with the private hospital sector to ensure the specified safety and quality indicators can be included in future reporting.

A template for completing an equipment stock take so that facilities can use the information to ensure best use of current stocks and develop a business plan for the purchase of any new items that may be required.

This tool may assist individual clinical areas or whole facilities to develop robust evaluation plans for recognition and response systems.

This tool is designed to assist with the development of an escalation protocol and track and trigger system.

This week’s issue includes items on the local health and wellbeing boards, transgender patients, digital health, clinical variation, continuity of care, diabetes, primary care leadership, stroke thrombolysis, misdiagnosis, nursing and more.

Also covered are new issues of the Australian Journal of Primary Health, Healthcare Papers and Health Affairs, 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