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The Commission's Strategic Intent 2020-2025 outlines four priority areas of focus for the Commission, and describes a range of mechanisms used to progress these strategic priorities.

The purpose of this policy is to outline the requirements for accrediting agencies in relation to managing and preventing conflicts of interest.

This report provides analyses of data on confirmed critical antimicrobial resistances (CARs) submitted to the National Alert System for Critical Antimicrobial Resistances (CARAlert) for 2019, and trend data for 2017 to 2019.

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

This document provides instructions on how to utilise two work boards within OrgTRx – one for data reported using CLSI guidelines, and another for data reported using EUCAST – to assist APAS contributors to extract data to create antibiograms.

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

This report provides the latest update report for data submitted to CARAlert for the reporting period: 1 May 2020 to 30 June 2020, and complements previous analyses of and updates on CARAlert data.

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

As part of the work of the Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Australia (AURA) Surveillance System, analyses of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia data collected by the Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) from 2013 to 2018 identified important national and state and territory trends. These trends can be used to inform local therapeutic, quality improvement and infection prevention and control initiatives.

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 report includes analyses of detailed information about prescribing practices for surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis in 2019. The findings can be used to guide quality improvement programs and improve overall care for patients having surgery.

This report presents analyses of data collected for the 2019 Aged Care National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey (AC NAPS) and includes comparisons with 2016, 2017 and 2018 AC NAPS data.

This report provides an update on data submitted to CARAlert for the reporting period 1 July 2020 to 31 August 2020, and complements previous analyses of and updates on CARAlert data. The data update provides information to support prevention and containment of antimicrobial resistance.

The 2020 Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard describes the key components of care for patients who have an infection or who or at risk of an infection. It contains eight quality statements and ten indicators.

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

This infographic describes the steps for consumers to help set health care goals.

This report provides an update on data submitted to CARAlert for the reporting period 1 September 2020 to 31 October 2020, and complements previous analyses of and updates on CARAlert data. The data update provides information to support prevention and containment of antimicrobial resistance.

In 2020, the National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council (NPAAC) released their five year strategic plan outlining four key strategic objectives.