This fact sheet outlines the National Pathology Standard (the Pathology Standard), including its key components, how assessments will be conducted against it, and the process behind its development.
You are invited to provide feedback to the Commission, addressing all or any of the following questions. Your input will help shape the standard.
The public consultation closes on 8 December 2025.
This paper provides an overview on how you can participate in the National Pathology Standard consultation.
The public consultation closes on 8 December 2025.
The National Medicines Symposium 2025 is shaping up to be an unmissable event. The full agenda is now live.
Services Australia updates Location Specific Practice Number (LSPN) records within five working days of receiving DIAS accreditation reports from accrediting agencies.
The Commission has released two new Advisories for the National Clinical Trials Governance Framework (NCTGF). The Advisories contain important information to support health service organisations (HSOs) and accrediting agencies with implementation and assessment to the NCTGF.
To clarify the requirements of registration for accreditation under the National General Practice Accreditation Scheme for general practices and accrediting agencies.
The Commission has released a landmark Sepsis Epidemiology Report, offering the most comprehensive national analysis to date of hospital-treated sepsis in Australia. Drawing on more than 900,000 hospitalisations from 2013–14 to 2022–23, the report confirms that sepsis is more widespread, deadly, and costly than previously understood, with over 84,000 sepsis hospitalisations in 2022–23 alone.
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A landmark report released ahead of World Sepsis Day, 13 September 2025, reveals that sepsis is more prevalent, deadly and costly than previously understood – prompting renewed calls to improve early detection, data quality and clinical care across the healthcare system.
