26 October New blood clot standard designed to prevent deaths October 26, 2018 By Announcement Venous Thromboembolism, Prevention 0 With 10% of all Australian hospital deaths caused by largely preventable blood clots, a new standard of care has been launched to reduce the risks for patients. Developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, the first national Venous Thromboembolism Prevention Clinical Care Standard aims to address the threat posed by blood clots, which kill four times as many people than road accidents. Each year 30,000 Australians develop blood clots1 — known as venous thromboembolism (VTE) — in the deep veins of the leg (deep vein thrombosis) or in the lungs (pulmonary embolism), at a cost of $1.72 billion to the Australian health system. Read More Related Articles RACGP Public Consultation: Draft Standards for general practice residential aged care The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has released the draft of the RACGP Standards for general practice residential aged care (1st edition) (Standards for GPRAC) for public consultation. Have your say on the draft Acute Anaphylaxis Clinical Care Standard Secure messaging standards to be mandatory State, Territory and Commonwealth Governments have released a joint statement in support of new standards for secure messaging, stating that the standards will be mandatory in future procurement for applicable systems. Time to make prevention matter Webinar: Changes to MBS effective 01 November 2020 Cancer Institute NSW - Take one small step to make one big difference Despite the significant reduction in smoking rates across NSW, tobacco remains the largest cause of preventable disease and death in NSW with over 47,000 people hospitalised and nearly 5,500 deaths attributed to smoking each year. Comments are closed.