If a health service organisation is found to have a large numbers of not met actions at initial assessment and is subsequently awarded accreditation, they will be required to be reassessed within six months of the assessment cycle being completed.
The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide clarification on the rating scale for assessments to the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.
In January 2019, health service organisations were able to choose to undertaking or short notice assessments. This program ends with the introduction of mandatory short notice assessments from 1 July 2023.
Those organisations that commenced this program will need to complete assessment to all eight NSQHS Standards before moving to the mandatory short notice assessment.
By using a standardised structured assessment method, health service organisations and assessors can be confident all components of safety and quality systems are comprehensively evaluated, and that assessments are based on evidence of actual performance from observations, interviews and records.
This fact sheet highlights specific conditions that impact on health service organisations and which have recently been updated and appear in the Policy - Application for approval under the Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation (AHSSQA) Scheme to conduct accreditations of health service organisations using the Scheme’s standards.
The purpose of this fact sheet is to help cancer patients, their families, carers or volunteers understand what to expect from a health service providing people with medications for cancer.
Clinical governance is a shared responsibility to ensure all patients receive the best care. Managers, clinician and other members of the treating team share the common goal of optimising patient care. Managers share accountability for the care delivered, the equitable use of resources and building a positive workplace culture.
Clinical governance is a shared responsibility to ensure all patients receive the best care. Medical oncologists, haematologists, other members of the treating team and managers share the common goal of optimising patient care. Medical oncologists and haematologists share accountability for the care delivered, the equitable use of resources and building a positive workplace culture.
Clinical governance is a shared responsibility to ensure all patients receive the best care. Nurses, other members of the treating team and managers share the common goal of optimising patient care. Nurses share accountability for the care delivered, the equitable use of resources and building a positive workplace culture.
Clinical governance is a shared responsibility to ensure all patients receive the best care. Pharmacists, members of the treating team and managers share the common goal of optimising patient care. Pharmacists share accountability for the care delivered, the equitable use of resources and building a positive workplace culture. Pharmacists are ideally placed and skilled to minimise the risk to patients when reviewing, compounding and/or dispensing anticancer medicines.
This fact sheet includes information related to Action 5.14 in the NSQHS Standards and should be read in conjunction with Advisory AS18/15: Comprehensive Care Standard: Developing the comprehensive care plan.
This fact sheet provides important information for clinicians to consider when discussing advance care plans with patients and sets out the actions that directly relate to advance care planning in the NSQHS Standards.
Health service organisations are required to develop and implement systems and processes that support patient-clinician discussions about the patient’s preferences for care in the future, to document advance care plans, and to act on advance care plans as part of comprehensive care delivery and for the NSQHS Standards.
The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide guidance to health service organisations when establishing processes to accurately identify and record Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status.
A Topic Working Group was convened to provide advice to the Commission on this project. The group comprised individuals with relevant expertise in anaphylaxis, representatives of key stakeholder organisations as well as a consumer representative.
The purpose of this fact sheet is to describe how day procedure services can enhance consumers’ involvement in governance, design and performance-monitoring activities.
This resource provides guidance for organisations developing policies, procedures and protocols for preventing, screening, assessing, treating, monitoring and documenting pressure injuries.
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has developed a series of fact sheets to support clinicians providing care to people who are nearing the end of life.
