The Commission engaged Macquarie University and the University of Wollongong to undertake a literature review and environmental scan to identify principles that enable the safe and responsible implementation of AI in healthcare.

This fact sheet provides information for aged care service consumers on the basics of infection prevention and control.

This summary provides a concise overview of the Aged Care Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Guide. It includes links to individual chapters of the Guide for more information. 

This Guide supports implementation of the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards and supplements the Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare for the aged care workforce and those providing care for older people. The Guide outlines the basic principles of infection prevention and control and explains how to apply these principles using a risk-based approach.

This issue includes items on partnering with consumers, decision support tools for antibiotic use, falls prevention, diagnosis, acute patient care principles, imaging, medication safety, aged care, clinical errors, remote patient monitoring, COVID-19, and more. Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, HealthcarePapers, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, and the UK’s NIHR and NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.

The draft Framework for Australian clinical quality registries second edition (the Framework second edition), developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) with input from the CQR Framework Review Advisory Group, outlines the future state for Australian national CQRs, and provides guidance to support CQRs to work towards achieving best practice governance, logical design, security and privacy compliance, reporting and outlier measurement.