This Guide supports implementation of the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards and supplements the Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare for the aged care workforce and those providing care for older people.
Read the Winter 2024 issue of Commission eNews.
Read the June 2024 issue of NSQHS Standards News.
Read the June 2024 issue of NSQHS Standards News.
The consultation is open until Friday 4 October 2024.
The draft Framework for Australian clinical quality registries second edition (the Framework second edition), developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) with input from the CQR Framework Review Advisory Group, outlines the future state for Australian national CQRs, and provides guidance to support CQRs to work towards achieving best practice governance, logical design, security and privacy compliance, reporting and outlier measurement.
The process used and combined the available data with the collective judgement of experts. Key steps included:
In 2016, the Commission developed the Prioritised list of clinical domains for clinical quality registry development.
The NSQMI fact sheet addresses frequently asked questions about the National Safety and Quality Medical Imaging (NSQMI) Standards and the Australian Safety and Quality Medical Imaging Accreditation (ASQMIA) Scheme that will accompany the NSQMI Standards.
The draft National Safety and Quality Medical Imaging (NSQMI) Standards details the actions and requirements for meeting the four NSQMI Standards.