Search

This Communiqué provides an update on the eighth meeting of the National Sepsis Program Oversight Group (Oversight Group). It may be used by members to update their nominating organisations and other key agencies about the National Sepsis Program Extension (Program Extension).

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.

Read the sixth edition of Person-centred Care Insights. Discover new initiatives and exciting developments in person-centred care from across our network. Find a range of tools, resources, event updates and training opportunities as well as recent publications that can support your practice.

This issue includes items on the Australian Hospital Patient Experience Question Set for parents and carers (AHPEQS-Parent), patient safety, chronic conditions and more. Along with the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety,Residential Aged Care Communiqué, The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety and the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.

This tool outlines the range of cognitive, psychological and physical symptoms that people may experience after sepsis. The tool is designed to enable clinicians to recognise post sepsis syndrome and support holistic care planning and recovery.

A companion to the Primary Care Screening Tool, this tool outlines the time critical actions that should be taken by primary care clinicians when they suspect that a patient has sepsis. It includes a checklist to record what actions have been take and when.

This tool is designed to support primary care clinicians to assess patients who have signs or symptoms of infection for sepsis. The resource outlines key risk factors for adult, maternal and paediatric sepsis.

This Communiqué provides an update on the seventh meeting of the National Sepsis Program Oversight Group (Oversight Group). It may be used by members to update their nominating organisations and other key agencies about the National Sepsis Program Extension (Program Extension).

-

This Communiqué provides an update on the sixth meeting of the National Sepsis Program Oversight Group (Oversight Group). It may be used by members to update their nominating organisations and other key agencies about the National Sepsis Program Extension (Program Extension).

The full list of questions and answers from the Person-centred care in practice webinar 'Better Together: Transforming healthcare complaints', held on 2 April 2025.

The Commission is seeking a full-time, non-ongoing EL1 Senior Project Officer, Partnering with Consumers.

Information on this vacancy and how to apply can be found in the link below. Applications for this role will close 11.59pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) 27 April 2025.

Questions about the role can be directed to Anna Flynn (02) 7232 5351.

This issue includes items on wellbeing , medication safety, harm, surgery, communications, health literacy, and more.

Also covered are the latest from Health Affairs, Emergency Medicine Australasia, Health Expectations, International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.

This issue includes items on medication safety, patient safety, co-design, surgery, second victim syndrome, 30-day mortality and more.

Also covered are the latest from Australian Health Review, JBI Evidence Synthesis, BMJ Quality &Safety, International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the USA’s AHRQ.