Aged Care Quality Standards
ACQS25-5.7 Medicine-related adverse events monitored, reported and used
Clause and reference 15-30(7) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-5.7
The requirement
Adverse events linked to medicines are watched and reported, and they feed safety and quality improvement.
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
- Medication incident register
- Reports to the Therapeutic Goods Administration where required
- Improvement actions from medication incidents
What assessors commonly find
- Medication errors under-reported
- Adverse events not fed into improvement
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-5.7 Medicine-related adverse events monitored, reported and used, the evidence to bring is: Medication incident register; Reports to the Therapeutic Goods Administration where required. It sits under Standard 5 - Clinical care and the instrument's own clause is 15-30(7). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me medication incident register, 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