Advisories
Advisories are formal guidance documents that explain how to interpret or assess our national safety and quality standards. They help health services, accrediting agencies and assessors understand critical information about standards and accreditation. Advisories are routinely reviewed, and revisions are summarised in the notes section of the relevant advisory.
NSQHS Standards
- Advisory AS18/01: Advice on not applicable actions
- Advisory AS18/02: Interim accreditation for newly established health service organisations
- Advisory AS18/04: Advice on the applicability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander specific actions
- Advisory AS18/05: Transferring between accrediting agencies
- Advisory AS18/06: Accreditation assessment requirements of health service organisations post significant clinical or governance review
- Advisory AS18/08: Antimicrobial stewardship and surgical prophylaxis
- Advisory AS18/09: Notification of significant risk
- Advisory AS18/10: Informed financial consent
- Advisory AS18/11: Implementing systems that can provide clinical information into the My Health Record system
- Advisory AS18/12: Implementing the Colonoscopy Clinical Care Standard
- Advisory AS18/13: Sampling for accreditation assessment
- Advisory AS18/14: Comprehensive Care Standard: Screening and assessment for risk of harm
- Advisory AS18/15: Comprehensive Care Standard: Developing the comprehensive care plan
- Advisory AS21/01: Implementing the Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard
- Advisory AS21/03: Annual Declaration Relating to Conflicts of Interest
- Advisory AS21/04: Provisional accreditation to the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards for primary and community healthcare services
- Advisory AS22/02: Advice on organisational training requirements for hand hygiene and infection prevention and control
- Advisory AS22/03: Advice on not applicable actions for BreastScreen Australia Services
- Advisory AS22/04: Cultural Safety Training for Assessors
- Advisory AS23/01: Advice on national hand hygiene audit period 2
- Advisory AS23/02: Advice on not applicable actions for Ambulance Health Services
- Advisory AS24/01: National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards requirements for reprocessing of reusable medical devices in health service organisations
- Advisory AS25/01: Mandatory reporting of medical device adverse events
Primary and Community Healthcare Standards
- Advisory PCHS26/01: Sampling for assessments
- Advisory PCHS26/02: Advice on not applicable actions
- Advisory PCHS26/03: Notification of significant risk
- Advisory PCHS26/04: Requests for extensions and appeals
- Advisory PCHS26/05: Transitioning between accrediting agencies
- Advisory PCHS25/01: Advice on not applicable actions for private dental practices
- Advisory PCHS24/01: Requirements for reprocessing of reusable medical devices in practices
- Transitioning from AS/NZS 4815:2006 to AS 5369:2023
Digital Mental Health Standards
- Advisory D25/04: Transitioning between accrediting agencies for the Digital Mental Health Standards
- Advisory D25/03: Assessment requirements of digital mental health service providers post significant clinical or technical governance review
- Advisory D25/02: Notification of significant risk for the Digital Mental Health Standards
- Advisory D25/01: Advice on not applicable actions for the Digital Mental Health Standards
- Advisory D23/01: Sampling for Digital Mental Health Standards accreditation assessment
- Advisory D23/01: Sampling for assessments to the Digital Mental Health Standards
Cosmetic Surgery Standards
- Advisory CS25/02: Advice on not applicable actions for the Cosmetic Surgery Standards
- Advisory CS25/01: Notification of significant risk
Mental Health Standards for Community Managed Organisations
- Advisory CMO 24/01: Not applicable actions in the NSQMHCMO Standards
- Advisory CMO 25/02: Notification of significant risk
- Advisory CMO 25/03: Sampling for accreditation assessment
National Clinical Trials Governance Framework
National General Practice Accreditation Scheme
- Advisory GP25/01: Registration under the National General Practice Accreditation Scheme
- Advisory GP24/01: Assessment following relocation of physical premises by an accredited general practice
- Advisory GP23/02: Requests for extensions and appeals
- Advisory GP23/03: Standardised repeat assessment of general practices
- Advisory GP21/01: Point-of-care testing for general practices
- Advisory GP18/04: Notification of significant risk
- Advisory GP18/02: Transferring accreditation between accrediting agencies
Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme
- Advisory DI21/03: Requirements for comparison with national diagnostic reference levels
- Advisory DI21/04: Disinfection requirements for reusable medical devices
- Advisory DI21/05: Clarification of consent requirements
- Advisory DI21/06: Clarification of the required evidence for an equipment service provider’s qualifications and licences
- Advisory DI21/07: Evidence requirements for optimised radiation technique charts
- Advisory DI21/08: Medication management - For imaging associated with surgical and interventional procedures
- Advisory DI23/01: Revised Diagnostic Reference Levels for Nuclear Medicine and Positron Emission Tomography
- Advisory DI25/01: Diagnostic imaging practices transferring between accrediting agencies
- Advisory DI25/02: Diagnostic reference levels for multi detector computed tomography