Aged Care Quality Standards
Standard 7 - The residential community
ACQS25-7.4 Clear responsibility and accountability across workers and organisations
Clause and reference 15-40(4) of the Aged Care Rules 2025 · our reference ACQS25-7.4
The requirement
The provider makes responsibility and accountability clear for who does what in delivering funded aged care, across the aged care workers, the registered health practitioners, the allied health professionals and assistants, and across organisations.
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
- Documented responsibilities across internal roles and external organisations
- Service agreements with health services
- Specialist service connections
What assessors commonly find
- No agreed responsibilities with visiting practitioners
- Gaps when care is shared with external services
What evidence do I need?
For ACQS25-7.4 Clear responsibility and accountability across workers and organisations, the evidence to bring is: Documented responsibilities across internal roles and external organisations; Service agreements with health services. It sits under Standard 7 - The residential community and the instrument's own clause is 15-40(4). Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me documented responsibilities across internal roles and external organisations, 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