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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.

Asymptomatic bacteriuria: reducing inappropriate antimicrobial prescribing for aged care facility residents

The fact sheet is designed to support health service organisations to use PICMoRS.

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.

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.

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.

This fact sheet provides information for day procedure services about processes and practices that facilitate comprehensive care suitable to their setting and the patient population.

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

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.

The tops Tips for Safe Health Care are now available in digital formats to display on screens.

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 for clinicians about informed consent in health care. 

Released September 2020

The Antimicrobial Medicines Dispensing from 2013–14 to 2017–18 report is the first analysis to probe antimicrobial prescribing at every level over five years – national, state and territory, Primary Health Network (PHN) and local area.  It is available in interactive format.

This infographic outlines key highlights from the report.

Updated 23 September 2020

The purpose of this fact sheet is to describe how day procedure services can enhance consumers’ involvement in governance, design and performance-monitoring activities.

This resource provides guidance for organisations developing policies, procedures and protocols for preventing, screening, assessing, treating, monitoring and documenting pressure injuries.

Maintaining good hand care is important for ensuring effective hand hygiene. Frequent hand hygiene is important for preventing the spread of infection, such as COVID-19, however frequent hand hygiene can take a toll on your hands.

The Australasian College of Dermatologists and the Occupational Dermatitis Research and Education Centre have recently developed information resources to support healthcare workers, ensuring that they have healthy hands.

This fact sheet gives digital mental health service providers an explanation of what good clinical and technical governance is; why it is important; how service providers can meet this standard and what can be done to implement this standard to assure the delivery of safe, effective, integrated, high quality and continuously improving digital mental health services.

Please see safetyandquality.gov.au/dmhs for further information about the NSQDMH Standards.

This fact sheet gives digital mental health service providers an explanation of the Partnering with Consumers Standard; why it is important; how service providers can meet this standard and what can be done to implement this standard to assure the delivery of safe, effective, integrated, high quality and continuously improving digital mental health services.

Please see safetyandquality.gov.au/dmhs for further information about the NSQDMH Standards.

This fact sheet gives digital mental health service providers an explanation of the Model of Care Standard; why it is important; how service providers can meet this standard and what can be done to implement this standard to assure the delivery of safe, effective, integrated, high quality and continuously improving digital mental health services.

Please see safetyandquality.gov.au/dmhs for further information about the NSQDMH Standards.

This fact sheet gives digital mental health service providers an overview of why a risk management approach is important when implementing the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards.

For further information about the NSQDMH Standards please see safetyandquality.gov.au/dmhs.