Residential care facility managers may also use this document to facilitate engagement with their software vendors about potential enhancements within their existing eNRMC medication management system (eNRMC system) or include these features within their goal state.

The guide’s focus is on residential care facilities that wish to transition from a paper-based or hybrid (electronic and paper) medication management system to an eNRMC system. 

With the growing number of standards under The AHSSQA Scheme, the Commission is looking to streamline the accrediting agencies approval process by running concurrent approvals agaisnt the selected standards for this round. As a first step in this process, the Commission is transitioning from paper-based to electronic application forms which can be accessed via this link. 

A document version of the form is also available for download to assist agencies with collating responses and supporting documents.

With one in four older medical patients affected, an updated national clinical care standard to improve care for people at risk of delirium – a serious and often preventable condition – has been applauded by healthcare professionals.

The COVID-19 pandemic has sharpened the focus on delirium for hospitalised patients, their families, carers and healthcare professionals.

The Fourth Australian report on antimicrobial use and resistance in human health (AURA 2021) highlights the ongoing public health and safety threat posed by antimicrobial resistance.

The most comprehensive report produced on Australian antimicrobial use and resistance trends to date has found that while antimicrobial use in the community is decreasing, overprescribing and inappropriate prescribing continues to be a problem. 

This report describes the national prevalence of CDI in 2016, 2017 and 2018. The report summarises the findings from the three Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) data snapshot reports from those years. The technical report also includes discussion on the validation of patient administrative data for the monitoring of CDI and the utility of combining other surveillance datasets with CDI surveillance data.