This document maps the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards with the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards (Primary and Community Healthcare Standards).

This issue includes items on the revised Emergency Triage Education Kit, values and ethics in healthcare improvement, retained swabs, electronic medication management, antimicrobial stewardship, paediatric medication safety, workplace violence, behaviour, locums, telemedicine, COVID-19, and more. 

Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, and Health Policy along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.

This series of quick-start guides has been developed to help people to rapidly understand and implement the essential elements. Implementing the tasks in these guides will help to ensure that the essential elements are in operation and working effectively.

This poster about the steps for hand washing can be used in your local World Hand Hygiene Day activities.

This poster can be displayed above hand washing sinks in your healthcare setting or workplace to show that there are five easy steps for hand washing.  

Everyone can help to improve hand hygiene and reduce the spread of infection.

This issue includes items on pneumonia, infections, health worker wellbeing, diagnostic error in mental health, falls prevention, medication safety, COVID-19, and more. 

Also covered are the latest from Clinical Communiqué, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, and Australian Health Review along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.