World AMR Awareness Week (WAAW) is celebrated from 18 - 24 November each year.
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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.
The Commission contributes to e-Health safety by optimising safety and quality in the rollouts of digital clinical systems. It focuses on hospital medication management programs and discharge summaries, and uses e-Health initiatives to improve the safety and quality of health care, including antimicrobial stewardship.
This guide was released in 2012 to support implementation of the National Consensus Statement: Essential elements for recognising and responding to clinical deterioration. The Consensus Statement was updated in 2016.
The tools and resources can still be used by health service providers to identify strategies for successfully implementing robust recognition and response systems to address acute physiological deterioration.
Antimicrobial stewardship includes the range of activities that promote and support optimal antimicrobial prescribing and use. The aim of the Commission’s work on antimicrobial stewardship is to improve the safe and appropriate use of antimicrobials, reduce patient harm and prevent and contain antimicrobial resistance in Australia.
Hand hygiene is a fundamental part of patient care to prevent the spread of infections and contamination of the healthcare environment.
Contact the NHHI Help Desk for support with the NHHI Learning Management System (LMS) and the Hand Hygiene Compliance Application (HHCApp).
Australia’s national Clinical Quality Registries (CQRs) make a unique contribution to the Australian health system. They collect, analyse and report information about the care and outcomes being delivered by health service organisations, and serve as a fundamental driver of ongoing improvements in the safety and quality of the care provided to Australian consumers.
The Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Prevention Program aims to reduce HAIs by providing resources that support systems and strategies to prevent infection and manage infections effectively when they occur.
The Commission leads and coordinates key improvements in safety and quality in health care across Australia.