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The Commission wishes to acknowledge the significant contribution of its steering committee members in the development of the Better Care Everywhere program series.
Getting the best outcomes for patients and reducing harm are the goals of the Atlas series. Each Atlas examines a series of health topics, investigates variation and the possible reasons for it, and provides specific achievable actions to reduce unwarranted variation.
Antimicrobial stewardship in aged care is important to improve the safe and appropriate use of antimicrobials and decrease the risk of antimicrobial resistance for older people.
The Stillbirth Clinical Care Standard supports best practice care for stillbirth prevention and investigation, and bereavement care following perinatal loss.
The National Standard was released by the Commission on 4 November 2022.
The Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard describes the care that you can expect to receive if you have a hip fracture. Find out more about what the Standard means for consumers and other available resources.
The Escalation Mapping Template (EMT) will help to determine which processes for recognising and responding to deterioration in a person’s mental state are working effectively, and identify if there are any problems and/or gaps in current processes.
The National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards support the right of people with intellectual disability to equitable health care. This page provides further resources to assist those with intellectual disability and their family and supporters to understand and advocate for equitable health care, as part of the Commission’s support for improved health care for people with intellectual disability.
Environmentally sustainable infection prevention and control (IPC) practices improve the safety and quality of health care for patients.
A number of related resources have been identified which are relevant to the Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard.
The NHHI LMS hosts the hand hygiene, infection prevention and control modules and hand hygiene auditor online learning. Health service organisations (excluding aged care) with 10+ staff can register for access to the NHHI LMS.
Registering an organisation allows learners (staff) to link their profiles to your organisation in the NHHI LMS.Organisations do not need to register for its staff (learners) to access the NHHI online learning modules. The organisation name does not appear on any completion certificates.
Falls are a significant cause of potential harm in health care, and are a national safety and quality priority.
Identifying and managing the risk of harm from falls forms part of the Comprehensive Care Standard.
Responses have been prepared to frequently asked questions (FAQs) from the National Medicines Symposium 2024.
A compendium of resources is available for reference at safetyandquality.gov.au/NMS24.
Information about the Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears Clinical Care Standard and resources for clinicians.
The Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard includes nine quality statements describing the key components of care for the management of acute pain to optimise patient outcomes and reduce the potential for opioid-related harm.
The Delirium Clinical Care Standard includes eight quality statements describing the key components of care to improve the prevention of delirium in patients at risk and the early diagnosis and treatment of patients with delirium.
Effective infection prevention and control practices reduce the risk of transmission of infections between patients, healthcare workers and others in the healthcare environment.
This page provides information on Hand Hygiene Auditor Educator Training.
Measurement and feedback are key to quality improvement. Data can be used to identify areas where services are doing well and areas where improvement is required.