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This report describes the lived experience of people who have experienced sepsis and health system improvements to better support post-sepsis care.

This template letter can be used by healthcare services to communicate with a patient’s general practitioner on discharge following hospitalisation for sepsis. It contains information about post-sepsis syndrome and sepsis recovery.

The Sepsis Clinical Care Standard contains seven quality statements and a set of indicators to ensure sepsis is recognised early and patients receive coordinated, best-practice care to reduce the risk of death or ongoing morbidity.

Recommendations for multidisciplinary discharge planning to ensure follow up and support for patients and their families after hospitalisation with sepsis - including a discharge checklist.

This resource accompanies the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard. It describes what the quality statements mean for healthcare services and provides indicators to support local quality improvement activity. It outlines key considerations for healthcare services in regard to equity and cultural safety.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, the launch of the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard, updated Basics of surveillance and quality improvement in healthcare e-learning module, diagnostic imaging, stroke care, person-centred care and more.

Also covered are the latest issues of the Medical Journal of Australia, Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, and Health Affairs along with the online first papers from the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE.

This report provides the findings and lessons learned from the pilot study for a national retrospective medical record review examining clinical records of patients with sepsis and suspected sepsis in Australia.