Health Quality & Safety Commission e-update, Issue 56 online now

The latest issue of the Health Quality & Safety Commission's e-update for the period of 16 September–16 October 2016 is now available online.

In this issue:

• SNOMED conference – the global language of health care
• Everyone needs to have a conversation about death and dying
• Deadline extended for advance care planning (ACP) national forum poster submissions
• Management of the ACP programme and training
• Consumer reports from the 2016 APAC Forum
• Vicki Culling awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust fellowship
• Commission celebrates infection prevention work in International Infection Prevention Week
• Surgical site infection orthopaedic report
• Commission's falls prevention work profiled at international forum
• Inaugural hip fracture registry annual report released
• Supporting World Osteoporosis Day on 20 October 2016
• Developing a national approach to the measurement and reporting of pressure injuries
• Update on the patient deterioration programme.

Read issue 56 of the Commission e-update.