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This week’s issue includes items on bias in health care, Clostridium difficile/Clostridioides difficile, the National Hand Hygiene Initiative, dementia, medication reviews, patient and family engagement, intrapartem care, reporting safety concerns, antimicrobial stewardship and more.

Also covered are new issues of the Patient Experience Journal and Health Affairs, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the latest from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

This user guide outlines critical actions in the second edition of the NSQHS Standards that support safe and high quality care for patients with cognitive impairment or at risk of delirium.

This week’s issue includes items on patient experience, public health, patient safety, speaking up, medication safety, dementia, end of life care, attire, health information technology, surgical instruments and more.

Also covered are new issues of BMJ Quality & Safety and Patient Safety, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and latest from the UK’s NICE.

Safe and high-quality care for patients with cognitive impairment or at risk of delirium in acute health services

This guide outlines relevant actions in the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards that support safe and high-quality care for people with cognitive impairment or at risk of delirium. It suggests strategies for implementation, provides links to further resources and highlights examples of good practice that are achievable.

Clinicians can take action to reduce the risk of harm.

This infographic is targeted at reducing inappropriate use of antipsychotics. It summarises why this is such an important issue for people with behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) across multiple healthcare settings.

Dementia causes progressive cognitive impairment, affecting memory, judgement, language and everyday tasks. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of dementia.

Delirium is an acute disturbance of consciousness, attention and cognition that tends to fluctuate during the course of the day.

This guide explains what the 10 elements for safe and high-quality end-of-life care mean for you as a patient, and for families, carers and consumers.

Safe and high-quality care for patients with cognitive impairment (dementia and delirium) in hospital.

The purpose of this background paper was to present a précis of the policy and clinical framework for end-of-life care within the Australian acute healthcare setting and as interpreted by consumers, clinicians and policy makers in 2013.

Small, rural and remote health services face particular challenges when implementing a recognition and response system. This fact sheet provides specific information and implementation strategies for such services.

Day procedure services face particular challenges when implementing a recognition and response system. This fact sheet provides specific information and implementation strategies for such services.

This poster can be displayed in health services to inform clinicians about people with intellectual disability and the provision of inclusive health care that is safe and high quality.

This issue includes items on leadership, safety and improvement culture, Vitamin D testing, emergency departments, cognitive impairment, COVID-19 and more.

Also covered is the latest issue of Health Affairs along with early online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from New Zealand’s Health Safety & Quality Commission.

Healthcare professionals can use this fact sheet to inform making reasonable adjustments for a person’s intellectual disability to create an inclusive environment and facilitate meeting the NSQHS Standards.

This report summarises research and analysis conducted by the Commission to examine health outcomes for people with cognitive impairment admitted to public hospitals in Australia. The Commission presented a summary of its key findings at the 2023 IHACPA Conference.