Aged Care Quality Standards
ACQS25-5.12 Managing high impact and high prevalence clinical risks
Clause and reference 15-30(12) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-5.12
The requirement
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.
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
- Clinical risk register covering falls, pressure injuries, nutrition, continence, pain, oral health, mental health, swallowing and sensory impairment
- Quality Indicator data and trend analysis
- Risk-specific procedures
What assessors commonly find
- Falls and pressure injury data not analysed
- Choking risks not identified at assessment
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-5.12 Managing high impact and high prevalence clinical risks, the evidence to bring is: Clinical risk register covering falls, pressure injuries, nutrition, continence, pain, oral health, mental health, swallowing and sensory impairment; Quality Indicator data and trend analysis. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me clinical risk register covering falls, pressure injuries, nutrition, continence, pain, oral health, mental health, swallowing and sensory impairment, 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
Paste your policy or evidence pack and the reading marks, line by line, whether a phrase from this requirement appears and quotes your own words when it does. It is a reading of your text, not a compliance result; a quality assessor decides whether a requirement is met. Read your pack, free See the paid reading