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The NSQHS Standards User Guide for Health Service Organisations Providing Care to People from Migrant and Refugee Backgrounds aims to support health service organisations to implement the NSQHS Standards and provide safe and high-quality care that meets the needs of people from migrant and refugee backgrounds.

This document provides guidance to support temporary collection facilities during the evolving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.

This document provides guidance from the National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council (NPAAC) on the use of point of care testing to support increased testing demand for SARS-CoV-2 during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.

This resource provides a summary of some of the key data from AURA 2021 that may be of specific interest to public health professionals.

This resource provides a summary of AURA 2021 data that may be of specific interest to members of infection prevention and control teams.

This resource provides a summary of AURA 2021 data that may be of specific interest to medical practitioners.

This resource provides a summary of AURA 2021 data that may be of specific interest to hospital and community pharmacists.

The purpose of this advisory is to describe the requirement for accrediting agencies to submit an annual declaration relating to conflicts of interest.

The purpose of this advisory is to clarify the requirements for the transition between the 2014 and the 2020 Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standards.

To clarify the requirements for the transition between the 2017 Preventing and Controlling Healthcare-Associated Infection Standard of the National Safety and Quality Health Services (NSQHS) Standards and the 2021 Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard.

By implementing the six end-of life care actions in the Comprehensive Care Standard, health service organisations are laying the foundations to support the delivery of safe and high-quality end-of-life care that is person-centred and comprehensively meets the needs of the patient. These six actions can be linked to the 10 essential elements of the Consensus Statements. This resource sets out some suggested implementation strategies.

The Multi-Purpose Services Aged Care Module (the MPS Aged Care Module) has been developed by the Commission in collaboration with the Australian Government, state and territory departments of health, and the Commission’s Multi-Purpose Services Project Advisory Committee. The MPS Aged Care Module describes, in six actions, the requirements of the Aged Care Quality Standards not covered by the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards. It is only applicable to eligible MPS and was endorsed by the Australian Health Minister’s Advisory Council on 7 February 2020.

The purpose of this document is to provide practical guidance for managers and clinicians responsible for credentialing, and for determining and managing a clinician’s scope of clinical practice. This guide supports but does not replace or supersede state, territory or organisational policies, by-laws or rules on credentialing.

Delivering comprehensive care is delivered when conditions support the healthcare workforce to provide person-centred value-based care.

Understanding My Healthcare Rights: a summary booklet - accessible version

Understanding My Healthcare Rights: a guide for consumers - Word accessible version

Understanding My Healthcare Rights: a guide for consumers - A4 Print version

A comprehensive guide to the healthcare rights patients can expect including access, safety, respect, partnership, information, privacy and giving feedback.

An overview of the healthcare rights patients can expect including access, safety, respect, partnership, information, privacy and giving feedback.

This consumer guide explains what the Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard means for consumers, and what they can do to have an active role in their care.

This fact sheet explains what the Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard means for clinicians and for patient care.

This document provides instructions for APAS contributors on how to build a susceptibility profile for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus species (VRE), and carbapenem (meropenem) resistant organisms (CROs) by downloading data from OrgTRx into Microsoft Excel.

This planning resource is designed to support clinicians preparing for Antimicrobial Awareness Week; it is most suitable for the acute care environment but could be adapted for primary care settings.

The guide was developed to support standardised national surveillance and reporting of healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection (HA-SABSI) by Australian hospitals. It supersedes the Commission's 2016 Implementation Guide for Surveillance of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia. 

The 2021 Recommendations for the control of Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (2021 CPE Guide) provides updated guidance on recommended strategies to prevent, detect and contain CPE in Australian health service organisations.