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This issue includes items on the updated Preventing falls and harm from falls best practice in older people: Best Practice Guidelines, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), audit and feedback, prevention, patient-centred care, partnering with consumers, intimate partner violence, and more. Along with the latest from Clinical Communiqué, BMJ Leader, Emergency Medicine Australasia, and International Journal for Quality in Health Care.

The Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best Practice Guidelines for Community Care in Australia (Falls Guidelines for Community Care) aims to improve the safety and quality of care for older people and offers a nationally consistent approach to preventing falls and harm from falls in community care settings.

The Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best Practice Guidelines for Australian Residential Aged Care Services (Falls Guidelines for RACS) aims to improve the safety and quality of care for older people and offers a nationally consistent approach to preventing falls and harm from falls in residential aged care settings.

This fact sheet outlines recommendations for preventing falls in hospital as well as the major changes to the 2025 Falls Guidelines.

This fact sheet outlines recommendations for preventing falls in the community and at home as well as the major changes to the 2025 Falls Guidelines.

This fact sheet outlines recommendations for preventing falls in hospital as well as the major changes to the 2025 Falls Guidelines.

The Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People: Best Practice Guidelines for Australian Hospitals (Falls Guidelines for Hospitals) aims to improve the safety and quality of care for older people and offers a nationally consistent approach to preventing falls and harm from falls in hospital settings.

This issue includes items on the consultation for the Falls in older people guidelines, the Patient Safety Principles from the Patient Safety Commissioner for England, patient experience, diagnostic excellence, hospital-acquired complications (HACs), learning health systems, incentives, adverse events, and more. 

Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, Australian Prescriber, Future Leaders Communiqué, Public Health Research & Practice, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety  and the UK’s NICE.