This issue includes items on vaccination, healthcare variation, safety culture, radiation safety, integrated care, low back pain, medication safety, COVID-19, and more. Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, and Health Policy.

This report provides analyses of antimicrobials supplied under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and Repatriation PBS in 2023, and trends from 2015. The report highlights antimicrobial use in aged care and by local area.

Released August 2024

This report provides analyses of data captured by Australian Passive AMR Surveillance (APAS) on antimicrobial resistance trends in multidrug-resistant organisms (MROs) from 2006 to 2023. The MROs included are:

• Vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium (VRE)
• Fluoroquinolone resistance in Escherichia coli
• Methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Released July 2024

This decision aid can be used with your doctor to help you decide whether to use antibiotics when you have a flare-up (exacerbation) of your chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). 

This decision aid can be used with your doctor to help you decide whether to use antibiotics when you or your child has sinusitis (acute rhinosinusitis).

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to assist consumers deliver the educational session for Partnering with Consumers: A guide for consumers, and can be used in partnership with staff from the local health service organisation.

This Facilitator Guide is designed to assist consumers deliver the educational session for Partnering with Consumers: A guide for consumers, and can be used in partnership with staff from the local health service organisation.

This issue includes items on social prescribing, medication safety, safety culture, infection prevention and control, clinical quality registries, Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), COVID-19, and more. Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Medicines Advice Initiative Australia and the USA’s AHRQ.