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The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) has developed draft National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards.

The Commission invites consumers and carers, clinicians, service providers, and interested stakeholders to provide feedback on the NSQDMH Standards during a public consultation from March - May 2020. 

The purpose of this advisory is to clarify the requirements for hand hygiene audits during the response phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Clinical assessment and diagnosis is an important aspect of providing comprehensive care to patients.

A literature review to better understand the use of antipsychotic medicines for people aged 65 years and over.

This process flow outlines the steps that the Commission will follow when an extension request related to Advisory AS18/07: Reprocessing of reusable medical devices in health service organisations is received.

This is the flowchart for the assessment process for the National General Practice Accreditation Scheme.

The consultation has now closed. The Commission has reviewed the information received, which informed the finalisation of the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards for publication in 2021.

This report includes analyses on the burden of CDI in Australian public hospitals in 2018.

The National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards aim to improve the quality of digital mental health service provision, and to protect service users and their support people from harm.

A template for digital mental health service providers to offer product information to service users as required in Action 3.3 of the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards.

This self-assessment tool is a resource that initially helps digital mental health service providers to determine how well they meet the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards. Service providers are encouraged to review the NSQDMH Standards and assess and record their progress using the self-assessment tool.

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for completing the self-assessment tool for the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards.

This template is for health service organisations that wish to submit case studies and stories about their comprehensive care implementation.

The PBS eCMC project is to support electronic prescribing of chemotherapy medicines in hospitals and other defined care settings. The proposed information requirements are a list of data entry fields that must be available within oncology systems to support electronic prescribing as part of the conformance requirements set by the Australian Digital Health Agency.