The Commission has released a new Healthcare Sustainability and Resilience Module (the Module) to support health services in delivering high-quality care while reducing environmental impacts and managing climate risks.
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What is a digital mental health service?
In relation to the NSQDMH Standards, a digital mental health service is defined as a mental health, suicide prevention or alcohol and other drug service that uses technology to facilitate engagement and deliver care.
This issue includes items on antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance, workplace heat stress, risk communication and community engagement, clinical quality registries, tobacco use, and more. Along with the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Emergency Medicine Australasia, Health Expectations and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care.
The Healthcare Sustainability and Resilience Module is a framework of actions for health service organisations to integrate environmental sustainability and climate resilience into the safety and quality of care.
This fact sheet supports digital mental health service providers and accrediting agencies in assessing cybersecurity practices using the Digital Mental Health Standards.
The Digital Mental Health Module for Community Managed Organisations outlines a subset of actions from the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards (Digital Mental Health Standards). This subset of actions can be used with the National Safety Quality Mental Health Standards for Community Managed Organisations (NSQMHCMO Standards) to meet accreditation requirements for both sets of standards.
The Digital Mental Health Module for Primary Care outlines a subset of actions from the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards (Digital Mental Health Standards). This subset of actions can be used with the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards to meet accreditation requirements for both sets of standards
This report summarises the burden of CDI in Australian public hospitals during 2022 and 2023.
To describe the requirement for accrediting agencies to examine external and non-routine internal reports of reviews and investigations into significant safety and quality issues, clinical or technical governance, or safety breaches as part of a digital mental health service provider’s accreditation assessment.