New fact sheets are now available to support the implementation of the Australian Framework for National Clinical Quality Registries 2024.
2024
Newsletter
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.
2024
Guide, user guide or guidelines
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).
2024
Fact sheet or brochure
This fact sheet supports the Recommendation for safe use of medicines terminology, and includes:
- Best Practice Principles for safe, clear and consistent terminology for medicines
- List of acceptable terms, abbreviations and dose designations.
2024
Guide, user guide or guidelines
This guidance explains how aged care organisations and providers can implement policies and practices to meet the requirements of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard.
Quality statements
The Acute Stroke Clinical Care Standard contains seven quality statements describing the care a patient should be offered for acute stroke.
For consumers
2024
Media release
As Australia's population continues to age, the need for more appropriate and safer medicine use is critical. The National Medicines Symposium 2024, hosted by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, will address this issue under the theme ‘Appropriate Use of Medicines in an Ageing Population.’
Released 13 November 2024
MEDIA RELEASE
As Australia's population continues to age, the need for more appropriate and safer medicine use is critical. The National Medicines Symposium 2024, hosted by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, will address this issue under the theme ‘Appropriate Use of Medicines in an Ageing Population.’