The Commission in collaboration with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) developed the NGPA Scheme, which commenced on 1 January 2017.
The NGPA Scheme supports the accreditation of Australian general practices to the RACGP Standards for general practices and the RACGP Standards for point-of-care testing (as of November 2021).
The AHSSQA Scheme provides for the national coordination of accreditation processes.
The Commission works with national and international partners to improve the safety of medicines naming and labelling.
This page includes information on infection prevention and control (IPC) strategies for carbapenemase-producing organisms (CPOs) and links to additional resources.
World AMR Awareness Week is held from 18 to 24 November each year.
The World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist has been demonstrated to improve patient safety and is now widely used in Australia as the nationally agreed strategy for surgical safety.
World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) is celebrated from 18 - 24 November each year.
Ensuring that patients who deteriorate receive appropriate and timely care is a key safety and quality challenge. The Commission has introduced a range of systems to better manage recognition of and response to acute physiological deterioration.
These posters show the key steps for standard precautions and when caring for patients who require transmission-based precautions, due to a known or suspected infection.
The core hospital-based outcome indicators (CHBOIs) contain a range of mortality indicators which have been developed to enhance safety and quality reporting and feedback.
Medication reconciliation means that the medicines the patient should be prescribed match those that are prescribed. Transition points of care are particularly prone to unintended changes in medication regimes and other medication errors.
There is consistent evidence that patient/procedure mismatching also occur in areas other than surgery. Protocols have been developed to support matching of patients to their care in the areas of radiology, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy and oral surgery.
Wristbands containing patient information have been the standard method of identifying patients in hospitals for many years. There is evidence, that suggests that there are patient safety risks associated with the use of patient identification bands.
The National Standard for User-applied Labelling of Injectable Medicines, Fluids and Lines (the Labelling Standard) assists health professionals to safely identify the contents of containers and lines used for, and with, injectable medicines and fluids. The labels approved for uses described in the Labelling Standard are provided in print ready form below.
A series of A4 education posters are available for tailoring to suit local requirements. They support the National Standard for User-applied Labelling of Injectable Medicines, Fluids and Lines (the Labelling Standard).
The Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare was jointly developed by the Commission and the NHMRC. The Guidelines, together with Commission guidance for specific organisms, provide healthcare workers and health service organisations with support to develop tailored local protocols and processes for infection prevention and control.
The National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for recognising and responding to acute physiological deterioration sets out the agreed practice for recognising and responding to acute physiological deterioration. It was developed as a generic document that applies to all patients in all acute care facilities in Australia.
The Commission has developed a suite of eLearning modules on hand hygiene and infection prevention and control.
The use of surveillance information of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) is an important initiative to improve patient safety. This page provides a range of information on surveillance of a number of HAIs.