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National Consensus Statement: essential elements for recognising & responding to clinical deterioration

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) has mapped the National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards against the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards.

This resource is for those health service organisations currently required to meet the NSQHS Standards that also intend to be accredited against the voluntary NSQDMH Standards.

The Escalation Mapping Template (EMT) is a quality improvement tool to assess the efficacy of health service providers’ systems to recognise and respond to deterioration in a person’s mental state.

• Access the online version of the EMT

The Excel version of the EMT can be downloaded below.