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This case study is one of eight, designed to assist other organisations working to embed person-centred care. It highlights the person-centred approaches and strategies that Riverland General Hospital and Riverland Mallee Coorong Local Health Network uses to partner with consumers.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to describe the requirements for implementation of the the Multi-Purpose Services Aged Care Module as part of the Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation Scheme.

This case study is one of eight, designed to assist other organisations working to embed person-centred care. It highlights the person-centred approaches and strategies that Alpine Health uses to partner with consumers.

The fact sheet aims to provide health service organisations with guidance on implementing the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Health Care Standards.

On 27 August 2021, the Commission released the Fourth Australian report on antimicrobial use and resistance in human health (AURA 2021).

This case study is one of eight, designed to assist other health services working to embed person-centred care. It highlights the person-centred approaches and strategies that the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Sydney Local Health District uses to partner with consumers.

This book tells you how to find good health information online.

The fact sheet aims to provide consumers with a brief introduction to the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards.

To provide guidance on conducting hybrid assessments to the NSQHS Standards to accrediting agencies and health service organisations .

This case study is one of eight, designed to assist other health services working to embed person-centred care. It highlights the person-centred approaches and strategies that Western Health uses to partner with consumers.

There is a lot of health information online and it is not always easy to know what information is reliable, or who you can trust. These tips will help you.

This case study is one of eight, designed to assist other health services working to embed person-centred care. It highlights the person-centred approaches and strategies that St Vincent’s Private Hospitals, Brisbane and Northside, use to partner with consumers.

To mitigate risks associated with assessors undertaking onsite assessments, accrediting agencies are required to routinely review the risks. This includes screening of assessors immediately prior to them commencing an onsite assessment.

This case study is one of eight, designed to assist other health services working to embed person-centred care. It highlights the person-centred approaches and strategies that John Fawkner Private Hospital uses to partner with consumers.

This checklist is to assist assessors when reviewing medication safety actions for organisations using paper-based National Standard Medication Charts (NSMC).

In order to provide Medicare eligible diagnostic imaging services, practices must be accredited under the Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme and have registered with Services Australia and have been allocated a Location Specific Practice Number.

This case study is one of eight, designed to assist other health services working to embed person-centred care. It highlights the person-centred approaches and strategies that the South Western Sydney Local Health District uses to partner with consumers.

The purpose of this checklist is to assist assessors when reviewing meeting minutes and other documentation during an assessment of clinical governance in a health service organisation. It provides a guide to the types of data that governing bodies should be reviewing.

This case study is one of eight, designed to assist other organisations working to embed person-centred care. It highlights the person-centred approaches and strategies that the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District uses to partner with consumers.

On 12 October 2021, the Commission released the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards.

On 9 September 2021, the Commission released the updated Delirium Clinical Care Standard (2021).

This fact sheet provides important information for clinicians to consider when discussing advance care plans with patients and sets out the actions that directly relate to advance care planning in the NSQHS Standards.

By using a standardised structured assessment method, health service organisations and assessors can be confident all components of safety and quality systems are comprehensively evaluated, and that assessments are based on evidence of actual performance from observations, interviews and records.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide guidance to health service organisations when establishing processes to accurately identify and record Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status.

This fact sheet includes information related to Action 5.14 in the NSQHS Standards and should be read in conjunction with Advisory AS18/15: Comprehensive Care Standard: Developing the comprehensive care plan.

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has developed a series of fact sheets to support clinicians providing care to people who are nearing the end of life.

Health service organisations are required to develop and implement systems and processes that support patient-clinician discussions about the patient’s preferences for care in the future, to document advance care plans, and to act on advance care plans as part of comprehensive care delivery and for the NSQHS Standards.

This fact sheet highlights specific conditions that impact on health service organisations and which have recently been updated and appear in the Policy - Application for approval under the Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation (AHSSQA) Scheme to conduct accreditations of health service organisations using the Scheme’s standards.

A presentation on leading and coordinating an infection prevention program in aged care homes.

This fact sheet provides information for clinicians to consider when planning for patient discharge.