Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

18 March 2024
This issue includes items on First nations health and women and girls’ health strategies, medication safety, clinical quality registries, low value care, primary care, digital health, culture, COVID-19, and more. 

Also covered are the latest from Pediatric Quality & Safety Healthcare Quarterly, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, BMJ Quality & Safety, and the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ

This issue includes items on patient and consumer engagement, social and emotional wellbeing, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of BMJ Quality & Safety, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Milbank Quarterly, and the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management and early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health Care along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.

This issue includes items on the PaRIS Health Survey. The new Partnering with Consumers: A guide for consumers, palliative care, frailty, COVID-19 and more. Also covered are the latest issues of Australian Prescriber, Public Health Research & Practice, Journal for Healthcare Quality and Health Expectations and early online papers from the International Journal for Quality in Health Care along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and the New Zealand Health Quality and Safety Commission.

This issue includes items on medication safety, anxiety, depression and suicide risk, digital health, artificial intelligence, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of BMJ Quality & Safety, Healthcare Policy, Journal of Patient Safety & Risk Management, and Healthcare Papers along with early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the latest from the UK’s NICE  and NHS and the USA’s AHRQ.

This issue includes items on healthcare system transformation, clinical pathways, digital health, low value care, near misses, emergency departments, cultural safety, COIVD-19 and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of Clinical Communiqué, Journal of Patient Safety, Journal of Health Services Research & Policy and BMJ Leader along with early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health Care along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.

The Commission's Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) is a first step towards reconciliation and importantly, improving the safety and quality of healthcare for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia.

This issue includes items on the National Safety and Quality Mental Health Standards for Community Managed Organisations, stress and burnout, intensive care, medications and Medical Emergency Team (MET) activations, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety  and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care along with the latest from the UK’s NICE.

This issue includes items on the forthcoming launch of the Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard, consultation on a Sustainable Healthcare module, a new online User Guide for Reviewing Clinical Variation,  health workforce, health and climate shocks, medication management, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are the latest issue of Clinical Communiqué and early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE and NIHR and the USA’s AHRQ.

The Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) Consumer and Patient experience Unit have partnered with the NSLHD Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Service to create a unique and culturally appropriate and tailored version of the Australian Charter of Health Care Rights (the Charter).

This fact sheet outlines the outcomes of the national survey conducted by the Australian Commission on Quality and Safety in Health Care.

The NSQHS Standards include six specific actions to improve safety, quality and experience of care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The User Guide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health provides further information for health service organisations to implement the six actions. The Commission undertakes to continually improve the evidence base and resources which inform these actions and to support health service organisations to implement the actions.

The patient information brochure provides useful information for patients and carers. It defines what sepsis is, the causes and prevention of sepsis, and how it is treated. The brochure also outlines the groups at higher risk of developing sepsis.

Healthcare professionals and health service organisations are encouraged to download and display the sepsis information posters. These posters aim to raise awareness around sepsis and its early symptoms.

A poster for for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples about the signs and symptoms of sepsis.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, cultural wellbeing, healing and rehabilitation, palliative care, diagnosis, stroke care and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, along with online first papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE.