NDIS Practice Standards
Core module: provision of supports
core-22.2 Transitions: risks identified, including temporary transitions such as hospital
Clause and reference core-22.2, our reference for this requirement in the NDIS Practice Standards and Quality Indicators
The requirement
The provider identifies, documents and responds to the risks of each transition, including temporary transitions to address a risk to the participant, such as a health risk needing hospital admission.
Our wording of the requirement: our statement of what the clause asks, not the instrument verbatim. Source: NDIS Practice Standards on the compliance desk.
The evidence to bring
- Transition risk assessments
- Hospital admission and discharge records with the provider's handover information
- Hospital or health passport documents provided on admission
What assessors commonly find
- No information sent with the participant on hospital admission
- Discharge risks not reviewed before supports resumed
What evidence do I need?
For core-22.2 Transitions: risks identified, including temporary transitions such as hospital, the evidence to bring is: Transition risk assessments; Hospital admission and discharge records with the provider's handover information. It sits under Core module: provision of supports and our reference for it is core-22.2. Keep every record dated, signed and current, and name who owns it.
Answer the reviewer first
Show me transition risk assessments, 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