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The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care and the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges (CPMC) have worked together on a joint statement on the importance of hand hygiene, focussing on medical practitioners and student doctors.

Applicants should read the document titled Policy - Approval under the Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation (AHSSQA) Scheme to conduct assessments before completing this application form.

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.

The Commission assembled the Sepsis Program Oversight Group (SPOG) to provide oversight to the National Sepsis Program.

The Commission convened the National Sepsis Clinical Reference Group (NSCRG) to provide specialist clinical and technical advice to the National Sepsis Program.

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

The purpose of this advisory is to describe assessment requirements for informed financial consent in health service organisations.

The purpose of this advisory is to update accrediting agencies of health service organisations’ requirements for the 2021 Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard in the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards relating to antimicrobial stewardship, specifically in relation to surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis.

The purpose of this advisory is to clarify not applicable actions in the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards for hospitals, day procedure services, multi-purpose services, bush nursing services, patient transport services and public dental services.

The purpose of this advisory is to clarify the implementation requirements for dental practices and services applying Action 3.17.1, which requires a health service organisation to have a traceability system to enable identification of patients on whom reusable medical devices are used.

The purpose of this advisory is to provide clarification of the core, developmental and non-applicable actions for dental practices and services implementing the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards.