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Aged Care Quality Standards

Standard 5 - Clinical care

ACQS25-5.10 Systems for coordinated, multidisciplinary clinical care

Clause and reference 15-30(10) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-5.10

The requirement

The provider keeps systems and processes behind clinical care that is coordinated and multidisciplinary, delivered with each person and those around them, and matched to their needs, goals and preferences.

Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: Aged Care Quality Standards on the compliance desk.

The evidence to bring

  • Case conference records with multidisciplinary input
  • Referral records
  • After-hours and urgent care access arrangements

What assessors commonly find

  • Allied health input sought only after incidents
  • Individual's goals absent from clinical planning

What evidence do I need?

For ACQS25-5.10 Systems for coordinated, multidisciplinary clinical care, the evidence to bring is: Case conference records with multidisciplinary input; Referral records. It sits under Standard 5 - Clinical care and the instrument's own clause is 15-30(10). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.

Answer the reviewer first

Show me case conference records with multidisciplinary input, and tell me who owns it and when it was last reviewed.

That is the question a quality assessor opens with for this requirement. Have the record on the desk and the date it was last reviewed to hand.

Read your own evidence against this clause

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