This clinical care standard sets out the components of care that health service organisations can use to guide practice and monitor improvement in hospitals and other services where the Third and Fourth Degree Perineal Tears Clinical Clinical Care Standard applies.
Information for health service organisations about the clinical care standard, the NSQHS Standards and resources to support implementation.
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This chapter provides a high level overview of the health system's response to the Australian Atlas of Healthcare Variation series (the Atlas series). It identifies the levers used to implement change and includes practical case studies.
The Escalation Mapping Template (EMT) will help to determine which processes for recognising and responding to deterioration in a person’s mental state are working effectively, and identify if there are any problems and/or gaps in current processes.
The Commission wishes to acknowledge the significant contribution of its steering committee members in the development of the Better Care Everywhere program series.
The Commission is concerned for older people and people with disability in all settings where psychotropic medicines are being prescribed inappropriately as a form of restrictive practice to control behaviour, off-label and for extended periods without review.
The Commission has undertaken a number of initiatives to reduce inappropriate use of psychotropic medicines.
The National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards aim to improve the quality of digital mental health service provision, and to protect service users and their support people from harm.
Healthcare variation – why does it happen and what can we do about it? Our online Better Care Everywhere: Healthcare variation in practice program series will answer these questions and more in the first program of its kind dedicated to reducing unwarranted variation in clinical care across Australia.
This series is part of the Commission's wider Better Care Everywhere initiative which brings together the wide range of guidance, tools and resources developed by the Commission to provide a comprehensive approach to appropriate and sustainable health care.