Environmentally sustainable infection prevention and control (IPC) practices improve the safety and quality of health care for patients.
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The Commission has developed a suite of resources to assist health service organisations to implement AS 5369:2023 Reprocessing of reusable medical devices and other devices in health and non-health related facilities.
The Commission implemented a process to create a prioritised list of clinical domains for potential development of national clinical quality registries.
In 2014, Australian Health Ministers endorsed the Framework for Australian clinical quality registries (incorporating the Operating principles and technical standards for clinical quality registries).
The future of medicines, good for people, good for the planet.
The Aged Care Emergency (ACE) service is a nurse-led multi-agency model of care in the Hunter New England and Central Coast areas of NSW. It provides triage and clinical support and advice for residential aged care facility staff so that care for residents can be delivered in the facility where appropriate to avoid unnecessary transfer to hospital.
The Commission has developed a set of principles to guide safe, high-quality transitions of care. The principles are fundamental to the Commission’s transition of care projects. The consistent application of these principles within practice, standards, policy and guidance is seen as a requirement for safe transitions of care.
The Commission, through QUM Learning (formerly NPS MedicineWise), provides a range of education and training resources on medication safety and quality use of medicines for healthcare professionals and students.
During national consultation for the National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for recognising and responding to deterioration in a person’s mental state the Commission identified the need to develop consensus on a set of signs that can be used for monitoring deterioration in a person’s mental state. The Commission engaged Gaskin Research to undertake the project and provide a report on Recognising Signs of Deterioration in a Person’s Mental State.
A number of resources have been identified which are relevant to the Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard.
The Commission understands its role as a data custodian of primary healthcare data and is committed to ensuring it is managed in a manner which is consistent with the requirements of relevant state and territory laws and standards.
MedicineInsight is a primary care quality improvement program using data from Australian general practices to support best practice and the post-market surveillance of medicines. It allows general practitioners to reflect on their prescribing patterns and patient care and review their practice results as well as the aggregate of all participating MedicineInsight practices.
This register lists all projects which have been approved to use MedicineInsight data. The project summaries are sourced from the data access form submitted by applicants.
Keynote speakers that presented at National Medicine Symposium 2023.
The National Medicines Symposium (NMS) is an annual, cross-disciplinary event bringing together leading organisations, experts, clinicians, consumers and policymakers to discuss and debate key issues around quality use of medicines.