The purpose of this guide is to provide information for health service organisations to help them improve the quality of care and health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people based on the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.
These guidelines are intended for those developing, assessing, procuring and implementing IT systems for medication management and electronic prescribing to:
Understand how design contributes to patient safety
Apply the recommendations during software development and iteration
This guidance outlines strategies and principles developed to address safe selection and storage of all medicines, including look-alike, sound-alike (LASA) medicines.
The purpose of this advisory is to clarify the applicability of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander specific actions in the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.
A comprehensive guide to the healthcare rights patients can expect including access, safety, respect, partnership, information, privacy and giving feedback.
This User Guide describes best practice strategies under each of the 28 specific actions to support organisations to deliver effective medication management in cancer services.
The Commission has revised the National Tall Man Lettering List to include cloBAZam in the benzodiazepine class of medicines, based on the reporting of adverse events and near misses and its high similarity and likelihood of confusion with another benzodiazepine: CLONAZepam.
