The Module has been developed to apply in any healthcare setting across Australia. It leverages the organisation’s existing clinical governance framework for its implementation. It can be applied along with other national safety and quality standards with a robust clinical governance framework, such as the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards, the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health Standards or the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards.

This issue includes items on the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards user guide for acute and community mental health services, the UK’s Women’s Health Strategy, medication safety, falls, decision support, patient decision aids, virtual care, COVID-19 and more.

This fact sheet outlines the outcomes of the national survey conducted by the Australian Commission on Quality and Safety in Health Care.

The user guide supports implementation of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards.

The NSQHS Standards include six specific actions to improve safety, quality and experience of care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The User Guide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health provides further information for health service organisations to implement the six actions. The Commission undertakes to continually improve the evidence base and resources which inform these actions and to support health service organisations to implement the actions.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, consumer and patient engagement, health care worker engagement, telehealth, safety practices, paracetamol overdose, Comprehensive Care Standard, open disclosure and more

Also covered are the latest issues of the BMJ Quality & Safety, Journal for HealthCare Quality Patient Safety, and Healthcare Policy, along with online first papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the latest from the UK’s NICE and NIHR and the USA’s AHRQ.

To provides users with updated information on reflective questions and examples of evidence for the 2021 Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, new aseptic technique resources, infection prevention and control, partnering with consumers and carers, emergency department (ED) care, delirium, diagnosis, health equity, resilience and more

Also covered are the latest issues of the Journal of Patient Safety, and Health Expectations, along with online first papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the latest from the UK’s NICE, the USA’s AHRQ and the WHO.

This report describes the lived experience of people who have experienced sepsis and health system improvements to better support post-sepsis care.

This issue includes items on COVID-19, draft National Safety and Quality Mental Health Standards for Community Managed Organisations (CMOs), delayed ambulance handover, antibiotic use, infection control, medication errors and more.

Also covered is the latest issues of BMJ Safety & Quality along with the latest online papers from the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from the UK’s NICE.

This checklist is to assist assessors when reviewing medication safety actions for organisations using paper-based National Standard Medication Charts (NSMC).

This issue includes items on COVID-19, consultation on intellectual disability fact sheets, the launch of the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards, Infection Prevention and Control Week 2021, new electronic National Residential Medication Chart resources, universal healthcare, patient safety, timeliness and coordination of care, maternal morbidity and mortality, antimicrobial prescribing, palliative and end-of-life care, and more.

This document outlines the  consultation process conducted on the National Safety and Quality Mental Health Standards for Community Managed Organisations – Consultation paper, and summarises participation and the feedback received.

The NSQHS Standards User Guide for Health Service Organisations Providing Care to People from Migrant and Refugee Backgrounds aims to support health service organisations to implement the NSQHS Standards and provide safe and high-quality care that meets the needs of people from migrant and refugee backgrounds.

Applicants should read the document titled Policy - Approval under the Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation (AHSSQA) Scheme to conduct assessments bef

To provide guidance on conducting hybrid assessments to the NSQHS Standards to accrediting agencies and health service organisations .