Acute

• For all children aged 12 years and under
• Has additional features to improve prescribing safety for paediatric inpatients, including neonates
• dose calculation space for medicine orders

Acute

• For patients in acute care
• Used across health service organisations in medical and surgical wards, emergency departments and intensive care units
• Allows for 10.5 days of administration, but this may be varied locally.

Second Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation - expert advisory groups

Consultation process

Topic Working Group

Consultation closed

The NCTGF consultation for the NSQHS Standards (third edition) is now closed.

How to take a BPMH – resources and tools

Use of the NMMP

The NMMP is used to:

AMR is when an antimicrobial is no longer able to effectively treat an infection. This is that a microorganism has developed resistance to an antimicrobial, so it won’t work to kill the infection. 

National statement