What did we do well today? Know your team, know your patients, know your harm & risks - celebrate anticipate, mitigate - Safety is what we do everyday. Great engagement and discussion with teams @SNSWLHD Queanbeyan & Goulburn with Peter Lachman ISQua in partnership with Clinical Excellence Commission

Pharmacists play a vital role in safeguarding patient safety through improving medicine use and reducing medication errors. #WPD2019 bit.ly/2mzrD7T

UK guideline group looking for multidisciplinary input into their C Diff guidelines. Great to see. Implementability should be a strong focus.

World Health Organization (WHO) Regions for Health WHO at the EU To improve #EquityinHealth, 5 concrete conditions are: ✅ Universal access to quality, affordable health services ✅ Income security and social protection ✅ Safe, decent living conditions ✅ Building social and human capital ✅ Good employment and working conditions #EHGF2019

A shout-out to all the brilliant and hard-working infection prevention & control consultants and champions in Victoria & Australia! Here is a Halloween-themed poster for IPC Week (13-19 Oct 2019) from NCAS 🧛‍♀️🕷️🍬 - trick or treat!: ncas-australia.org/education

Our 2018 Aged Care National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey (>400 ACHs, >20,000 residents) public report is now available! Key target areas: assessment & diagnosis of infection, topical ABX use, prophylactic ABX use, broad-spectrum ABX use, & more #AURA: bit.ly/2NbGeA5

It’s important to discuss antibiotic use with your patients before prescribing or giving them. We’ve got Information available in six languages to aid this discussion on our website bit.ly/2Qf8ULM #AAW2019 #AMR #WAAW

4 in 5 Australian doctors surveyed are prescribing placebos at least once a month. Interesting that antibiotics for viral infections have been classified as a placebo - technically correct, but these drugs are associated with unintended consequences! abc.net.au/news/2019-12-0…

Antibiotic use too long in surgery! A commentary we prepared that combines our quantitative #SurgicalNAPS work+qualitative research exploring surgical antibiotic prescribing behaviour #surgicalAMS NCAS_Australia Arjun Rajkhowa @UniMelbMDHS Doherty Institute bit.ly/2DOOFgp

If you've got a passion for integrating evidence into practice, evaluating healthcare projects, partnering with researchers and keeping patients safer in our hospitals as a result, we'd love to hear from you! bit.ly/2FCRlyG #QualityImprovement #patientsafety

An important message from Westmead Hospital’s emergency department ♥️ #COVID2019AU

Treatment options for COVID-19: Prof Jason Roberts Jason Roberts Prof Med + Pharmacy at UQ; and Pharmacist Consultant, Royal Brisbane at Women's Hospital will share an overview of medication use in #COVID19 patients 2pm AEDT Tue 24 March Register now → shpa.org.au/treatment_covi…

Call for Speakers for #Quality2021 #Sydney is now open! Submit a proposal if you'd like to run an interactive workshop, speak about an innovative project or propose a new way of thinking. Submissions are accepted until 7 October ow.ly/sQRB50B9oQG

Present an inspiring project to an international audience or introduce a new way of thinking by submitting a speaker proposal for #Quality2021 #Sydney. Call for Speakers is open until 7 October ow.ly/sQRB50B9oQG

Today is #WorldPharmacistsDay! From everyone at NSW Health, thank you to all the pharmacists, pharmacy assistants & technicians helping to keep the people of NSW healthy. Watch this message from Judith Mackson NSW Chief Pharmacist & Andrew Davison NSW Chief Allied Health Officer.

On #WorldPharmacistsDay we welcome @GregHuntMP’s announcement to extend measures supporting safe supply of PBS meds + $20M dedicated #pharmacy #research funding to improve safe use of meds + meds intervention by #pharmacists. shpa.org.au/news/patient-s…

Reducing avoidable harm in maternity care is vital. THIS new study takes a fresh, positive perspective to understanding what good looks like for safety in maternity units. THIS summary: ths.im/3mRiJxk Full article: ths.im/2HsPsZB

Tips to help you on your collaborative way chf.org.au/blog/tips-help… Jane Cockburn Mark Doughty The King's Fund Dr. Lou Walsh Chi Li Dr. Paresh Dawda Russell McGowan debrakay Leanne Wells

Join the #WAAW2020 webinar on Wed, 18 Nov, 1.30 PM AEDT, with @TeresaWozniak_ Trent 💊🆔 Asha Bowen Will Cuningham @laura_godd Amy Legg & colleagues, on antimicrobial resistance in regional and remote Australia! ➡️ bit.ly/3iDgUkV #NCASAAW2020

Meet Priya, admitted for cellulitis. Updating Antimicrobial Allergy status and ensuring Empiric Antimicrobial Choice is as per Therapeutic/locally endorsed guidelines improves care. #NSWCEC Antibiotic Allergy resources here: bit.ly/2IO1EEQ #AAW2020