Consultations – Clinical Care Standards
Consultation is now open for the draft Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Clinical Care Standard.
View the consultation materials and provide feedback here by 18 December 2023.
Consultation open – draft COPD Clinical Care Standard
In collaboration with consumers, clinicians, researchers and healthcare services, the Commission has developed a draft Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Clinical Care Standard for public consultation.
The consultation period will close at 11:59pm AEDT on Monday 18 December 2023.
Consultation materials
The Commission welcomes comments on the COPD Clinical Care Standard consultation materials below:
2023Publication, report or update
2023Fact sheet or brochureSubmitting your response to the consultation questions
The online survey asks for your feedback on the draft:
- Quality statements
- Indicators
- Information for patients, clinicians and healthcare services.
Please review the consultation materials above before responding. To help prepare your response, you can refer to the list of consultation questions.
While online survey submissions are preferred, submissions may also be provided in writing. Written submissions should address the consultation questions.
Written responses should be titled ‘COPD Clinical Care Standard Public Consultation’ and emailed to ccs@safetyandquality.gov.au
Consultation period
The consultation period will close at 11:59pm on Monday 18 December 2023.
What are clinical care standards?
Clinical care standards play an important role in guiding the delivery of appropriate care and help to address unwarranted clinical variation. They contain:
- a small number of quality statements describing the care that a patient should be offered, regardless of where they are treated in Australia
- a set of indicators to help clinicians and healthcare services monitor the care described in the clinical care standard and to support local quality improvement
- information about what the statements mean for patients, clinicians and healthcare services.
Outcome of consultations
Following public consultation, the Commission reviews all comments and uses this analysis to finalise the draft clinical care standards.
The Commission will review all comments and use them to finalise the clinical care standard.
Information about the launch of the finalised standard will be available on the Commission’s website.
Further information
If you have any questions or require further information about consultations, please email ccs@safetyandquality.gov.au.
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