10 tips for safer health care

The Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care produced the 10 Tips for Safer Health Care to assist people to become more actively involved in their health care. It explains how and why things can go wrong, and how you can work in partnership with your health care professionals to get the best possible care.

The Australian Health Ministers at their April 2004 conference agreed that the 10 Tips for Safer Health Care were to be distributed to all patients at or before the time of admission. This website has been created to help distribute the 10 Tips to community groups, consumers, carers and health care providers.

From this site, you can download the 10 Tips materials in 16 languages. You can order tip sheets, posters and booklets in 16 languages or link to the Australian Commission on Safety & Quality in Health Care (formerly the Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care) to access other languages.