What changed in the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards?
The strengthened edition replaced the earlier standards, and its clauses now carry codes beginning ACQS25. It sets seven standards, from the individual and the organisation through to clinical care, food and nutrition and the residential community, with more depth on diversity, dementia care, provider governance and clinical care.
Answered from the held text of Aged Care Quality Standards ACQS25-5.1. The clause behind it is cited below, and the requirement page carries the evidence an assessor asks for.
What the clause behind this answer says
ACQS25-5.1 Governing body improves clinical safety and quality
The governing body makes sure the safety and quality of the clinical care given to people keeps improving, and that the provider delivers clinical care that is safe and of good quality.
Source: Aged Care Quality Standards on the compliance desk. Our statement of the clause, not the instrument verbatim.
ACQS25-2.4 Governing body accountability and oversight of all operations
The governing body answers for the funded aged care delivered being of good quality, and keeps oversight of every part of the provider's operations.
Source: Aged Care Quality Standards on the compliance desk. Our statement of the clause, not the instrument verbatim.
What evidence answers it
- Clinical governance framework endorsed by the governing body
- Clinical quality and safety reports to the board
- Clinical priorities communicated to workers and individuals
What assessors commonly find
- Board receives no clinical indicators
- Clinical governance framework not endorsed
The reviewer opens with
Show me clinical governance framework endorsed by the governing body, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.
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