What does the clinical care standard ask of the governing body?
The governing body is accountable for clinical safety and quality: clinical governance is integrated into corporate governance, clinical care spans assessment through to review by qualified practitioners, and the clinical risks that are high impact and high prevalence, such as pressure injury, falls and medicines, are identified and managed.
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.
ACQS25-5.2 Clinical governance integrated into corporate governance
The provider folds clinical governance into corporate governance, so the clinical care given is safer, of better quality, and actively managed and improved.
Source: Aged Care Quality Standards on the compliance desk. Our statement of the clause, not the instrument verbatim.
ACQS25-5.12 Managing high impact and high prevalence clinical risks
The provider spots, watches and handles the clinical risks that are high impact and high prevalence, so clinical care stays safe and of good quality and the risk of harm to people falls.
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
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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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- ACQS25-5.1 Governing body improves clinical safety and quality
- ACQS25-5.2 Clinical governance integrated into corporate governance
- ACQS25-5.12 Managing high impact and high prevalence clinical risks
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