Information about the Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard and supporting resources for clinicians.
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The Psychotropic Medicines in Cognitive Disability or Impairment Clinical Care Standard describes the care you should expect to receive to support the safe and appropriate use of psychotropic medicines.
The Commission understands its role as a data custodian of primary healthcare data and is committed to ensuring it is managed in a manner which is consistent with the requirements of relevant state and territory laws and standards. We extract non-identifiable, unit-level data from participating general practice systems. Non-identifiable data is the output of the de-identification process, which involves the removal or alteration of information that identifies a person, or is reasonably likely to identify them, as well the application of any additional protections to prevent identification; including re-identification risks.
This register lists all projects which have been approved to use MedicineInsight data. The project summaries are sourced from the data access form submitted by applicants.
The Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights is for everyone. We are endeavouring to provide translations of the Charter in many community languages. Currently the Charter is available in 32 languages in a printable A4 poster format.
The Commission has developed an extensive range of supporting resources for everyone to understand and use the Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights (the Charter). These resources include video and audio files.
The Commission has drafted the Environmental Sustainability and Climate Resilience Healthcare Module as a framework of actions that health services can use to ensure their services are improving the safety and quality of care while addressing the health impacts of climate change and healthcare’s contribution to climate change.
Developing and using shared decision making tools can help clinicians to implement shared decision making in clinical practice.
Being actively involved in your health care and working in partnership with your healthcare providers can help ensure that you get the care that is right for you.
Identifying and setting goals of care is an important aspect of shared decision making for consumers, clinicians and health service organisations.
Effective clinical communication with both consumers and colleagues is essential for a collaborative, shared decision making approach to health care.
Person-centred care is a way of supporting greater involvement of consumers in health care, which in turn creates better health outcomes. Over the past two decades, person-centred care has become internationally recognised as a dimension of delivering high-quality health care.
Connect with us for the best in person-centred care.
The Network brings together people from Australia and beyond with a shared interest in strengthening the delivery of person-centred care, through peer support and shared learning.