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This self-assessment and action planning tool will help you to identify gaps in current systems and plan the actions required to achieve Essential element 1: Measuring and documenting physiological observations.

A template for completing an equipment stock take so that facilities can use the information to ensure best use of current stocks and develop a business plan for the purchase of any new items that may be required.

This self-assessment and action planning tool will help you to identify gaps in current systems and plan the actions required to achieve Essential element 5: Organisational supports.

This element was re-named in the second edition of the National Consensus Statement to leadership and governance.

A template for collecting information about rapid response cases. 

Measuring unexpected cardiopulmonary arrest rates is one way of measuring the impact of a rapid response system.

This tool may assist individual clinical areas or whole facilities to develop robust evaluation plans for recognition and response systems.

This self-assessment and action planning tool will help you to identify gaps in current systems and plan the actions required to achieve Essential element 4: Clinical Communication.

This element was re-named in the second edition of the National Consensus Statement to communicating for safety. 

A tool for evaluating staff perceptions of the rapid response system.

This self-assessment and action planning tool will help you to identify gaps in current systems and plan the actions required to achieve Essential element 8: Technological systems and solutions.

This element was re-named in the second edition of the National Consensus Statement to Systems to support high-quality care.

This tool is designed to assist with the development of an escalation protocol and track and trigger system.

This self-assessment and action planning tool will help you to identify gaps in current systems and plan the actions required to achieve Essential element 3: Rapid response systems.

This audit tool supports the collection of data for several quality improvement measures.

This self-assessment and action planning tool will help you to identify gaps in current systems and plan the actions required to achieve Essential element 7: Evaluation, audit and feedback.

This self-assessment and action planning tool will help you to identify gaps in current systems and plan the actions required to achieve Essential element 2: Escalation of care.

A template for creating a monitoring plan.

This self-assessment and action planning tool will help you to identify gaps in current systems and plan the actions required to achieve Essential element 6: Education.

This element was re-named in the second edition of the National Consensus Statement to education and training.

This short video explains the transition arrangements for NSQHS accreditation to the 2020 revision of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard from the previous version launched in 2014. 

A referral template for clinicians when referring patients for consideration for a colonoscopy. The template outlines relevant required information to support decision-making as described in Quality Statement 1 of the Colonoscopy Clinical Care Standard.

Learn about the importance of documenting adverse reactions to antimicrobials, antibiotic allergy delabelling and what they mean for antimicrobial stewardship in this short video.  

Infectious diseases specialist Dr Kathryn Daveson discusses updates to the Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard in 2020. 

A Topic Working Group was convened to provide advice to the Commission on this project. The group comprised individuals with relevant expertise in anaphylaxis, representatives of key stakeholder organisations as well as a consumer representative.

Updated August 2020.

This Gap Analysis tool developed by Julie Furlan from Darwin Private Hospital will assist organisations to understand what gaps exist in their current work flows, policies and procedures to enable the implementation of the Colonoscopy Clinical Care Standard.

A list of the Cataract Clinical Care Standard Topic Working Group members.