Following on from the consultation message further below, we hope people have had time to ponder what they want the NSQHS Standards to look like and how library services might be embedded in them.
To encourage participation and to ensure that the ALIA HLA submission covers off areas of interest, we invite you to come to a Zoom meeting to discuss:
📅 When: Thursday September 4th at 1pm (NSW, Vic, QLD, ACT, Tas); 12:30pm (SA, NT); 11am (WA).
🌏 Where: Zoom
🗣 Topic: NSQHS Standards – 3rd edition
https://alia-org-au.zoom.us/j/83653358035?pwd=4tahWpwGdDS2bNhAy4chU7lhFEWXPR.1 Meeting ID: 836 5335 8035 / Passcode: 019898
Consultation open on the NSQHS Standards (third edition)
NSQHS Standards (third edition) Engagement Hub
9 July 2025 | NSQHS Standards
The Commission is undertaking broad public consultation to inform the development of the NSQHS Standards (third edition), in collaboration with the healthcare system and community representatives. Submissions close 30 September 2025
ACSQHC is seeking to understand health system needs to ensure the next edition of the standards is relevant, evidence-based, responsive to emerging challenges and innovations in health care, outcomes focussed and integrated within health service organisations by:
- Engage health service boards, leadership and clinical teams on the systems, structures, actions and improvements needed to provide high-quality care
- Incorporate new and emerging evidence-based practices, and contemporary approaches to clinical governance
- Strengthen clinical governance at the health service level to create resilient and scalable structures and systems
- Align and adapt to evolving changes in the healthcare system
- Develop and mature health service organisations to become high performing learning organisations that focus on outcomes and impact
- Evolve the actions to improve cultural safety and eliminate racism in health care
- Drive greater integration of care.
The Commission will consult with key stakeholders nationally, including health services, clinicians, clinical experts, consumers, peak bodies and Australian Government, state and territory health departments.
Join ALIA HLA – we encourage all health libraries to reply to the Commission’s invitation
You have 3 avenues to respond – 20-minute survey; focus group participation; a written submission.
Why? We need to speak up and be counted!
Health Libraries in Australia actively demonstrate they contribute and support accreditation. We have created open access resources:
live searches and accreditation aligned examples with ready-to-fill templates.
The NSQHS (National Safety and Quality Health Service) Standards Live Literature Searches are a collection of PubMed searches developed by Health Libraries Australia to provide updated evidence related to the NSQHS Standards. These searches are designed to be used by health professionals to find relevant research and information to support best practices in Australian healthcare.