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This fact sheet provides guidance on how an incident arising from a clinical trial is identified, reported, and managed in Health Service Organisations (HSOs).

Spirometry is a common lung function test used to monitor and diagnose lung and airway conditions. This factsheet includes practical strategies to help reduce the risk of infection transmission during spirometry testing.

This fact sheet provides practical strategies for the safe use of CLONazepam oral liquid in clinical practice and includes standardised recommendations for the safe prescribing, dispensing and administering of CLONazepam oral liquid for clinicians and health service organisations.

This is one of a suite of resources to support aged care providers to deliver evidence-based care to older people who receive government funded aged care services. 

This stakeholder kit has been developed to support your communication efforts and raise awareness of the Atlas Focus Report: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), released by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. 

This is one of a suite of resources to support aged care providers to deliver evidence-based care to older people who receive government funded aged care services. 

This fact sheet is informed by the Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard (CCS), developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. The CCS describes the safe and appropriate use of psychotropic medicines for people with cognitive disability or impairment, in a way that upholds their rights, dignity, health and quality of life.

The Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best Practice Guidelines for Community Care in Australia (Falls Guidelines for Community Care) aims to improve the safety and quality of care for older people and offers a nationally consistent approach to preventing falls and harm from falls in community care settings.

The Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best Practice Guidelines for Australian Residential Aged Care Services (Falls Guidelines for RACS) aims to improve the safety and quality of care for older people and offers a nationally consistent approach to preventing falls and harm from falls in residential aged care settings.

This fact sheet outlines recommendations for preventing falls in hospital as well as the major changes to the 2025 Falls Guidelines.

This fact sheet outlines recommendations for preventing falls in the community and at home as well as the major changes to the 2025 Falls Guidelines.

This fact sheet outlines recommendations for preventing falls in hospital as well as the major changes to the 2025 Falls Guidelines.

The Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best Practice Guidelines for Australian Hospitals (Falls Guidelines for Hospitals) aims to improve the safety and quality of care for older people and offers a nationally consistent approach to preventing falls and harm from falls in hospital settings.

The Integrated Health and Aged Care Services Module (IHACS Module) replaces the Multi-Purpose Services Aged Care Module (MPS Module) from 1 November 2025.

This fact sheet provides health service organisations and clinicians with information on safety strategies and considerations related to the oxytocin injection supply disruption in Australia. 

Read the sixth edition of Person-centred Care Insights. Discover new initiatives and exciting developments in person-centred care from across our network. Find a range of tools, resources, event updates and training opportunities as well as recent publications that can support your practice.

National trend data published today by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care reveals a 31% fall in MBS-subsidised spirometry rates over eight years, despite the test being the gold standard for confirming a diagnosis of COPD. 

Released 25 June 2025

The MedicineInsight Continuing Professional Development Guide: COPD 2025 is a Quality Improvement Guide accompanying the MedicineInsight Practice Report: COPD 2025. Participating practices are offered COPD-focused quality improvement activities to align with best practice and identify key areas for improvement, benefiting patients. This activity can contribute to RACGP CPD mandatory requirements for participating GPs. 

The purpose of this tool is to allow organisations to track their progress in meeting the requirements of each Module Item from the Integrated Health and Aged Care Services Module (IHACS Module).

This fact sheet provides an overview of the purpose and contents of the Integrated Health and Aged Care Services Module (IHACS Module), provides links to accreditation resources, and explains how the Commission and accrediting agencies communicate with the regulators.

This quarterly update includes data submitted to CARAlert for the reporting period 1 January to 31 March 2025. These data support the prevention and control of critical antimicrobial resistances.

To explore the latest data, visit the CARAlert Data Explorer.

This fact sheet outlines a range of strategies to reduce potential and real conflicts of interest that are associated with the accreditation processes of general practices.

The Commission is proposing changes to the accreditation of medical imaging practices. The Australian Safety and Quality Medical Imaging Accreditation (ASQMIA) Scheme proposal describes the accreditation framework components, including cycle length, types of assessment notification, the assessment cycle, assessment methodology and its application to different kinds of imaging practices.

These are the Terms of Reference for the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards Project Advisory Committee (the Committee), which provides advice to the Commission on the development of the NSQHS Standards (third edition). 

The Committee is guided by the aims of the NSQHS Standards to provide a structured framework to ensure nationally consistent safety and quality systems are in place to deliver high-quality care.

The inaugural meeting of the NSQHS Standards Project Advisory Committee was held on 19 March 2025 via videoconference.

Download the Highlights Report for a national summary of key findings from the Altas Focus Report: COPD.

This tool outlines the range of cognitive, psychological and physical symptoms that people may experience after sepsis. The tool is designed to enable clinicians to recognise post sepsis syndrome and support holistic care planning and recovery.

A companion to the Primary Care Screening Tool, this tool outlines the time critical actions that should be taken by primary care clinicians when they suspect that a patient has sepsis. It includes a checklist to record what actions have been take and when.

This tool is designed to support primary care clinicians to assess patients who have signs or symptoms of infection for sepsis. The resource outlines key risk factors for adult, maternal and paediatric sepsis.

The 2024 annual report provides the results of analyses of data on confirmed critical antimicrobial resistances (CARs) submitted to the National Alert System for Critical Antimicrobial Resistances (CARAlert) for 2024, and trend data from 2017.

Released May 2025