The Commission has developed 10 advanced infection prevention and control eLearning modules that can be undertaken individually, or as a suite, dependent on need.
This page includes resources for implementation of the Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards and National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards (Primary and Community Healthcare Standards).
The Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard provides guidance to clinicians, healthcare services and consumers on the safe and appropriate use of psychotropic medicines.
This national standard was released by the Commission on 9 May 2024.
The Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard describes the care that you can expect to receive if you go to a primary healthcare provider or a hospital emergency department with a new episode of low back pain. This could be new pain or a flare-up of an ongoing problem. Find out more about what the standard means for consumers and the other resources available.
The Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard contains eight quality statements describing the care that should be received by patients aged 16 years and over who present with low back pain, with or without leg pain.
It may be applied in all healthcare settings where such care is provided, but is particularly relevant to primary healthcare services and emergency departments.
The Commission has developed guidance on clinical care components of the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards whose focus is to protect older people from harm and improve their clinical care.
Codes that can be used to identify patients diagnosed with sepsis from routinely collected data.
Accreditation provides assurances to the community that a healthcare service meets expected standards for safety and quality. It is a formal program in which trained independent reviewers assess a healthcare service’s evidence of implementation of the Primary and Community Healthcare Standards.
Information for healthcare services to guide practice and monitor improvement using the clinical care standard, and resources to support implementation.
The Sepsis Clinical Care Standard describes the health care that should be provided to patients with signs and symptoms of sepsis. It also addresses the care that should be provided in hospital and after discharge, including survivorship.