This issue includes items on clinical governance, mental health, leadership, cultural safety, burnout, antibiotics, medication safety, standards, digital health, COVID-19, and more.
Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, Emergency Medicine Australasia, Health Affairs Scholar, International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ Effective Health Care program.
We are excited to launch the second series of our Person-centred Care in Practice webinars. In the first episode, we will hear from Western Health who will discuss their Lived Experience Advisor Program (LEAP).
The Commission values your support in promoting the first consultation as part of the development of the third edition.
The content below has been developed for clinicians, health services and peak organisations to download and share on your website, social networks, with colleagues or within your health service to raise awareness of this national consultation, open from 9 July to 30 September 2025.
CEO MESSAGE
On behalf of the Commission, I am delighted to announce that we are celebrating 10 years of Clinical Care Standards in Australia.
- Conjoint Professor Anne Duggan, CEO
Preview the survey questions to make a submission for the Clinical Care Standards 10th Anniversary.
Share your story before 28 March 2025 by completing the webform.
New fact sheets are now available to support the implementation of the Australian Framework for National Clinical Quality Registries 2024.
This issue includes items on type 2 diabetes, young people, mental health, patient reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs and PREMs), COVID-19, and more. Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, Journal of Patient Safety, Nursing Leadership, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Residential Aged Care Communiqué and the USA’s AHRQ Effective Health Care program..
The Commission is developing the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards (third edition) to improve patient care into the future. Public Consultation commenced in July 2025. It is anticipated the NSQHS Standards (3rd ed.) will be released in 2028.
This document is a revision of the Recommendations for terminology, abbreviations and symbols used in medicines documentation (2016). The revision is based on reported adverse events and international trends in error-prone abbreviations and informed by a Rapid literature review (2023).
This fact sheet supports the Recommendation for safe use of medicines terminology, and includes: