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This resource provides general information for health professionals working in Aboriginal Medical Services or Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations. There is also a fact sheet for consumers.

A draft framework of actions for health service organisations to use achieve environmental sustainability and climate resilience for their health services. 

AURA 2023: Fifth Australian Report on Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Human Health is being released on 16 November 2023, highlighting data trends and analyses across acute and community care settings. 

This Key Findings summary features the most compelling data findings from AURA 2023, with excerpts taken from the report for easy reference.

Australians are unwittingly being exposed to increased risk of harm from taking antibiotics, when often these medicines are used to treat common infections where they will have no or little benefit, according to the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.

Released 16 November 2023

This resource outlines what antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is, and how we need to limit our use of antimicrobials – such as antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals and antiparasitics – to reduce the risk of drug-resistant infections and impact of AMR.

AURA 2023: Fifth Australian Report on Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Human Health was released on 16 November 2023, highlighting data trends and analyses across acute and community care settings. 

This A4 infographic showcases key data highlights from AURA 2023 on antimicrobial use in Australia.

This fact sheet provides information for consumers about antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance. It is designed to help clinicians and consumers answer the question, Do I really need antibiotics?

This fact sheet highlights key findings from AURA 2023 and priorities for action to support primary care services and clinicians prevent and control antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and improve antimicrobial use.

This fact sheet highlights key findings from AURA 2023 and information about antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), to support pharmacists working across primary and acute care settings.

This fact sheet highlights key findings from AURA 2023 and priorities for action to support infection prevention and control clinicians prevent and control antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and improve antimicrobial use.

This fact sheet highlights key findings from AURA 2023 and priorities for action to support aged care services and clinicians prevent and control antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and improve antimicrobial use.

This fact sheet highlights key conclusions and priorities for action identified in AURA 2023 to prevent and control antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and improve antimicrobial use.

This report provides supplementary data to Chapter 4 of AURA 2023: Fifth Australian report on antimicrobial use and resistance in human health.

AURA 2023 includes data and analyses from 2020–2022 (primarily 2020–2021) from various sources and reports on patterns and trends in antimicrobial use and appropriateness and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Australian acute and community healthcare settings.

The 2023 APS employee census was undertaken between 8 May 2023 and 9 June 2023.

As part of our commitment to making the Commission an even better place to work, we have implemented an agency-wide action plan to address areas where we can improve.

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) is hosting the National Medicines Symposium 2023 (the Symposium) on Wednesday 8 November.

Released 30 October 2023

The Annual Report 2022-23 provides an overview of our performance, governance arrangements, organisational structure and financial statements for the past financial year.

Service providers implementing the Digital Mental Health Standards are required to have a clearly described model of care consistent with best practice and evidence. This fact sheet describes the key elements that should be included.

This guide provides instructions for National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI) Learning Management System (LMS) Region Administrators on how to:

• Check their learners’ progress in the hand hygiene auditor training pathways 
• Enrol them in the relevant modules, training pathways and assessments.

This guide provides instructions for National Hand Hygiene Initiative (NHHI) Learning Management System (LMS) Organisation Administrators on how to:

• Check their learners’ progress in the hand hygiene auditor training pathways 
• Enrol them in the relevant modules, training pathways and assessments.

This quick guide outlines the care described in the Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard for patients presenting to their chiropractor for a new acute episode of low back pain, with or without leg pain.

This tool is designed to be used as a guide for developing and recording a training session, using the resources from NHHI’s LMS eLearning module The Basics of Infection Prevention and Control: Train the Trainer module and your own experience.

Connecting NHHI LMS and HHCApp profiles is important as it automates the annual auditor validation process.

Connecting NHHI LMS and HHCApp profiles is important to automate the annual auditor validation process.

This technical report complements AURA 2023. It presents comprehensive analyses of antimicrobials supplied under the PBS and RPBS in 2022, and local area level data and trends from 2015.

The role of the Osteoarthritis Clinical Care Standard Topic Working Group was to provide expert advice on the development of the first version of the Osteoarthritis of the Knee Clinical Care Standard published in 2017.

This sample dashboard was for GP Practices considering participation in the Patient-Reported Indicator Surveys, known as the PaRIS Health Survey, in 2023.

Depending on the patient responses for the practice, the dashboard mock-up illustrates the type of practice-level data that participating GP Practices may be able to access if they took part in the OECD initiative.

Please note that data visualisations shown are an example only and subject to change. 

This is the Standardised repeat assessment process flow chart for the National General Practice Accreditation Scheme.

This presentation provides healthcare workers with an introduction to Environmental Sustainability and Infection Prevention and Control, why it is important for the prevention of infections, and patient and healthcare worker safety.

A banner or graphic used to promote Infection Prevention and Control Week 2023, 15 to 21 October.