Where relevant, the User Guide includes boxes containing spotlight issues. These highlight important aspects of healthcare delivery for people with intellectual disability, their family’s and guardians.
The User Guide covers specific NSQHS Standards and Actions that ensure systems for clinical governance and person-centred approaches are in place.
The Commission has developed the User Guide to support health service organisations and clinicians in providing safe and high-quality health care to people with intellectual disability.
The National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards were developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) in collaboration with the Australian Government, states and territories, the private sector, clinical experts, and people who use health services and their families and carers.
Environmentally sustainable infection prevention and control (IPC) practices improve the safety and quality of health care for patients.
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 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.
A number of resources have been identified which are relevant to the Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard.
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.