Resource library

This guide has been designed to help you when things don’t go to plan in your health care. It will also be useful if something hasn’t gone to plan in the care of a relative, friend, or someone you care for.

This guide talks about health services (including hospitals) and doctors and nurses, but also covers health care provided in other health facilities and by other healthcare providers.

This user guide provides information on how to access reports in the NSMC Audit System.

This guidance for health service organisations provides options and strategies for conserving medicines primarily in the acute care setting. 

This user guide supports prescribers to prescribe medicines by the active ingredient with best practice guidance for specification of brand.

This document was last updated by the Commission in December 2022. From 1 January 2023, the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care is managing the curation of Active ingredient prescribing resources. From this date, please direct all AIP enquiries to aiprescribing@health.gov.au

This guide provides practical strategies to help digital mental health service providers effectively partner with service users in the governance, planning, design, measurement and evaluation of the service. 

The List of Excluded Medicinal Items includes medicines that should be prescribed by brand name, for practicality and safety purposes. 

This document was last updated by the Commission in December 2022. From 1 January 2023, the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care is managing the curation of Active ingredient prescribing resources. From this date, please direct all AIP enquiries to aiprescribing@health.gov.au

The NSMC audit aims to evaluate the effectiveness of NSMC safety features and improve the safety of medication charting.

This guide explains how digital mental health service providers should implement a charter of service users rights.

The List of Medicines for Brand Consideration includes medicines prescribers should consider prescribing by brand name as well as active ingredient name.

This document was last updated by the Commission in December 2022. From 1 January 2023, the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care is managing the curation of Active ingredient prescribing resources. From this date, please direct all AIP enquiries to aiprescribing@health.gov.au

It's time to update the National Consensus Statement. The consultation draft includes information from recent literature reviews and has been adapted to provide an opportunity to broaden the content and enable its use in all settings where end-of-life care is provided including primary and community care and residential aged care facilities.

This complete version of the Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard describes what each quality statement means for patients and their families, clinicians, and health service organisations, and provides indicators for local monitoring. It includes information about using clinical care standards, and the background and evidence sources for this standard.