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The Commission is now operating in accordance with the Caretaker ConventionsExternal link pending the outcome of the 2025 federal election.

Benefits of using the NRMC

  • Fewer prescriptions to write
  • A central point for information
  • Duration/length (charting cycle) of the NRMC and supply of medicines is a maximum of 4 months.

Using the guide

This comprehensive Guide to Support Implementation of the National Consensus Statement (the guide) will help facilities to:

These have been developed for each of the four clinical processes, and a combined guide has been developed for the four organisational prerequisites.

Legal history

In 2010, Professor David Studdert of the University of Melbourne conducted a review of the legal aspects of open disclosure in Australia. The review covered:

Open disclosure project details

Two key factors in supporting healthcare professionals are:

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AI implementation resource

Australian Open Disclosure Framework

The framework is designed to enable health service organisations and clinicians to communicate openly with patients when health care does not go to plan.

HAI surveillance programs enable hospitals to monitor the outcomes of current practice and provide timely feedback to clinicians to ensure practice improvement and better patient outcomes. Click on the topics below to learn more:

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