These modules support hand hygiene education and training for clinical, non-clinical and student healthcare workers. The content of the modules is consistent with the recommendations of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards, specifically the Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard, and the Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare.
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The Commission has developed a guide to support incident management. The guide consolidates best practice approaches based on literature reviews and the Australian states’ and territories’ incident management policies.
The Commission has established the Health and Medical Research Advisory Group to advise on project deliverables and guide the consultation process. The Advisory Group is chaired by Professor Ian Chubb AC, former Chief Scientist and clinical trial participant.
Read our Q+A with Dr Carolyn Hullick, Clinical Director at the Commission and emergency physician at Hunter New England Health, who answers your questions on sepsis.
Accreditation provides assurances to the community that healthcare services meet the expected standards for safety and quality. It is a formal program where trained independent reviewers assess evidence of implementation for specified standards.
The Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation series explores the extent to which use of health care in Australia varies depending on where people live, how their care is funded and their level of socioeconomic disadvantage.
The Commission has developed new training pathways for Hand Hygiene Auditors (previously called General Auditors) and Hand Hygiene Auditor Educators (previously called Gold Standard Auditors).
Delivering comprehensive care in alignment with the Comprehensive Care Standard is about ensuring that health care provided is informed by a person's clinical and personal needs and preferences, is shaped by shared decisions, and is planned and delivered in partnership with the multidisciplinary team.
The Commission has identified a set of six elements for comprehensive care delivery, which represent different stages or processes that a patient may experience when clinical care is delivered in alignment with the Comprehensive Care Standard.
To focus care on patients' needs, and determine the most appropriate model of care for the patient, it is important that health services identify and assess patients' risk of harm.
The first step in delivering comprehensive care is undertaking a clinical assessment. Clinical assessment should be based on the patient’s subjective report of the symptoms and course of the illness or condition, and objective findings from clinical assessment to determine provisional and differential diagnoses.
The Commission has developed information for consumers on some key safety and quality issues, and health conditions.