This fact sheet provides guidance to primary and community healthcare services accredited to the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards on requirements for out-of-cycle assessments, when there are material changes that could increase risk of patient harm.

This flow chart provides guidance on the assessment processes for accreditation to the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards.

This fact sheet describes the processes and structures for accreditation to the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards.

This issue includes items on aged care, medication safety, menopause, trauma-informed practice, environmental sustainability, cultural safety, primary care, and more. Along with the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Residential Aged Care Communiqué, Health Policy, Health...

The MedicineInsight Continuing Professional Development Guide: COPD Pharmacological Management 2025 is a Quality Improvement Guide accompanying the MedicineInsight Practice Report: COPD Pharmacological Management 2025. Participating practices are offered COPD-focused quality improvement activities to align with best practice and identify key areas...

The Digital Mental Health Module for Primary Care outlines a subset of actions from the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards (Digital Mental Health Standards). This subset of actions can be used with the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards to meet accreditation requirements for both sets of...

PICM is a mnemonic for a methodology designed to help assessors undertake assessments for accreditation against the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards.

Seven key attributes were identified for high-performing person-centred healthcare organisations.

January 2019

The Primary and Community Healthcare Standards aim to protect the public from harm and improve the quality of health care delivered by describing a nationally consistent framework, which all primary and community healthcare services can apply when delivering health care.