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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.

From January 2019, health service organisations will have a choice of undertaking either announced or short notice assessments.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to identify the clinical governance roles and responsibilities of allied health practitioners.

The new fact sheet is designed to support health service organisations to use PICMoRS.

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 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.

The purpose of this tool is to allow cancer services to review the uptake of clinical governance roles and responsibilities by their medical oncologists, haematologists, nurses, pharmacists and managers working in its cancer care areas.

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.