Aged Care Quality Standards
ACQS25-5.2 Clinical governance integrated into corporate governance
Clause and reference 15-30(2) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-5.2
The requirement
The provider folds clinical governance into corporate governance, so the clinical care given is safer, of better quality, and actively managed and improved.
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
- Organisation chart and committee structure showing clinical governance lines
- Scope of practice controls
- Agreements with practitioners on roles and protocols
What assessors commonly find
- Clinical governance run separately from corporate risk and quality
- Workers practising outside scope
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-5.2 Clinical governance integrated into corporate governance, the evidence to bring is: Organisation chart and committee structure showing clinical governance lines; Scope of practice controls. It sits under Standard 5 - Clinical care and the instrument's own clause is 15-30(2). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me organisation chart and committee structure showing clinical governance lines, 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