Roles and responsibilities for this component of the Clinical Governance Framework relate to the way in which patients and consumers are involved in partnerships in their own care, and in organisational design and governance.
Consumers are partners in the design and governance of the organisation.
The Commission has developed information, tools and resources to help support consumers engagement with, and understanding of, safe and high-quality health care.
Partnering with Consumers was introduced in the first edition of the NSQHS Standards and has been expanded in the second edition.
Digital mental health service providers develop, implement and maintain systems to partner with service users and their support people. These partnerships relate to the planning, design, delivery, measurement, review and evaluation of digital mental health services. The workforce uses these systems to partner with service users and their support people.