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This issue includes items on opioid analgesics, surgery volume and quality, mental health, privacy, mask wearing, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of Australian Prescriber, Health Affairs Scholar and BMJ Leader along with early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the latest from the UK’s NICE  and NHS and the USA’s AHRQ.

On 12 October 2021, the Commission released the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards.

On 27 August 2021, the Commission released the Fourth Australian report on antimicrobial use and resistance in human health (AURA 2021).

Infectious diseases specialist Dr Kathryn Daveson discusses updates to the Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard in 2020. 

This short video explains the transition arrangements for NSQHS accreditation to the 2020 revision of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard from the previous version launched in 2014. 

On 30 November 2020, the Commission announced the introduction of Australia's first National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards.

Learn about the importance of documenting adverse reactions to antimicrobials, antibiotic allergy delabelling and what they mean for antimicrobial stewardship in this short video.