Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care ACSQHC

4 Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) 

This council was established by the Australian govertunent in January 2000 to provide leadership in improving patient safety and quality through advice to all federal, state, and territory health ministers for a five-year term. Its three main specific goals were as follows  

In January 2006, the council was replaced by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care with the same role. The annual reports of the ACSQHC included recommendahons such as developing a national strategy for preventing health care-associated infechons, a national trial of disclosure of adverse events, and nahonal credentialing for medical prach-tioners in hospitals. 

---