Aged Care Quality Standards
ACQS25-5.9 Clinical care spanning assessment to review
Clause and reference 15-30(9) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-5.9
The requirement
The clinical care the provider delivers runs from clinical assessment through prevention, planning, treatment and management to review, so harm is kept to a minimum and quality of life, reablement and the ability to keep functioning are lifted.
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
- Comprehensive clinical assessments at start, regular intervals and on change
- Clinical plans and treatment records
- Clinical review records
What assessors commonly find
- Assessment done at admission only
- No preventive clinical strategies
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-5.9 Clinical care spanning assessment to review, the evidence to bring is: Comprehensive clinical assessments at start, regular intervals and on change; Clinical plans and treatment records. It sits under Standard 5 - Clinical care and the instrument's own clause is 15-30(9). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me comprehensive clinical assessments at start, regular intervals and on change, 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