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This fact sheet has been developed to provide information about discontinuation of multiple insulin products in Australia. The fact sheet aims to assist consumers, their families and/or carers understand the discontinuation of multiple insulin products and the impact it has on the health care they receive.

This guidance document provides clinicians with information on safety strategies and considerations related to the discontinuation of multiple insulin products in Australia.

This user guide provides instructions for APAS contributors on dashboard colour customisation including how to save and export customised antibiograms.

This Standard Operating Procedure provides instructions for APAS contributors on how to use the Statistical Area (SA) Geoanalytics Dashboard. The dashboard offers detailed antimicrobial resistance data by location using the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) for de-identified, location-based analysis.

Read the fifth issue of Person-centred Care Insights. Step into the heart of person-centred care! Explore innovative projects within our network and access a range of resources, tools, training programs, and event updates. Plus, check out the latest publications driving the person-centred care movement forward.

This Communiqué provides an update on the fifth meeting of the National Sepsis Oversight Group (Oversight Group). It may be used by members to update their nominating organisations and other key agencies about the National Sepsis Program Extension (Program Extension).

The full list of questions and answers from the Person-centred care in practice webinar 'Take the LEAP: Harnessing Lived Experience for Best Care', held on Thursday 12 December 2024.

This report provides analyses of Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (AGAR) data on bloodstream infections in enterococcal species, Staphylococcus aureus and gram-negative bacteria across Australia in 2023. The report also includes considerations and implications for patient safety and delivery of care.

Released December 2024

The MedicineInsight GP Snapshot on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) provides essential data and practical insights to help GPs improve the diagnosis and management of COPD.

This document provides guidance to support the implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) programs in general practice.

This document provides guidance to support the implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) programs in dental practices.

This document provides guidance to support the implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) programs in community pharmacies.

This document provides guidance to support the implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) programs in community health services, including nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives, and midwife practitioners.

This document provides guidance to support the implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) programs in community-based allied health, including optometry and podiatry practices.

This quarterly update includes data submitted to CARAlert for the reporting period 1 July to 30 September 2024. These data support the prevention and control of critical antimicrobial resistances.

This guidance supports public and private health service organisations to develop local policy and processes for the safe introduction of new interventional procedures and clinical practice innovations.

The Urogynaecological Society of Australasia has developed a consensus statement on the model of care for abdominal sacrocolpopexy for use by surgeons credentialled to perform sacrocolpopexy.

Knowledge and understanding of how to communicate with people with intellectual disability is vital for safe and high-quality health care. Using positive behaviour support involves strategies that address the needs of the person.

Transitions of care for people with intellectual disability can be high risk, the successful transfer of information is vital for safe health care.

People with intellectual disability are often at higher risk of adverse effects from medications as the information about their medicine may be difficult to understand.

This fact sheet has been developed to provide information about the current oral opioid medicine shortages being experienced in Australia. The fact sheet aims to assist consumers, their families and/or carers understand the oral opioid medicine shortages and the impact it has on the health care they receive.

This guidance provides nurses with information on conservation strategies and safety considerations related to the oral opioid medicines shortages and disruption to supply in Australia.

This guidance provides pharmacists with information on conservation strategies and safety considerations related to the oral opioid medicines shortages and disruption to supply in Australia.

This guidance provides prescribers with information on conservation strategies and safety considerations related to the oral opioid medicines shortages and disruption to supply in Australia.

Preview the survey questions to make a submission for the Clinical Care Standards 10th Anniversary. 

Share your story before 28 March 2025 by completing the webform. 

This document is a revision of the Recommendations for terminology, abbreviations and symbols used in medicines documentation (2016). The revision is based on reported adverse events and international trends in error-prone abbreviations and informed by a Rapid literature review (2023).

This fact sheet supports the Recommendation for safe use of medicines terminology, and includes:

• Best Practice Principles for safe, clear and consistent terminology for medicines
• List of acceptable terms, abbreviations and dose designations.

This guidance explains how aged care organisations and providers can implement policies and practices to meet the requirements of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard. 

As Australia's population continues to age, the need for more appropriate and safer medicine use is critical. The National Medicines Symposium 2024, hosted by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, will address this issue under the theme ‘Appropriate Use of Medicines in an Ageing Population.’

Released 13 November 2024

These evidence briefings summarise the evidence on the effectiveness of interventions that aim to improve medication management at transitions of care.