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This is part of a series of resources about clinical governance in aged care that aim to help aged care providers meet their responsibilities for ensuring the quality and safety of clinical care. This fact sheet is for people responsible for developing a clinical governance framework for an aged care service.
The Knowledge and Implementation Hub has gathered evidence on why clinical governance matters in aged care, along with learning and practical resources. These knowledge packages can support the aged care workforce in delivering safe, high-quality care to older Australians. If the concept of clinical governance is new to you, this short click-through learning module provides a simple overview of its role and value to the aged care organisation.
Health is a broad concept, influenced by a range of determinants – psycho-social, environmental, cultural, spiritual (for example). Any care or services can impact a person’s health. Therefore, the concept of clinical governance (which aspires to achieve optimal health outcomes - and therefore quality of living) is as relevant to home care as it is to residential aged care, despite different contexts and priorities. This article dives into building a clinical governance framework that takes direction from the Revised Aged Care Quality Standards (Strengthened Quality Standards), as it relates to aged and home care.
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The Registry of Senior Australians (ROSA) have released its latest ROSA Outcome Monitoring System (OMS) report, a quality and safety monitoring and benchmarking system designed to promote quality improvement, transparency, and accountability for the aged care sector.
The NDIS Independent Advisory Council’s (the Council) paper ‘choice and control to safely live a good life of belonging and citizenship’ recognises the system-wide focus on improving supports for people with disability who are at risk of harm. In response to this paper, the NDIA committed to developing a NDIA Participant Safeguarding Policy (Policy) to guide and enhance the way the NDIA works with NDIS participants and people with disability.
Just because people may be older and potentially frailer doesn't mean that decision-making should be taken away from them. Use this facilitator guide to support discussion about dignity of risk in aged care.
Dignity of risk is another way of saying you have the right to live the life you choose, even if your choices involve some risk.
This Perspectives Brief from the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association’s Deeble Institute examines approaches to observations of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. The authors of this Perspectives Brief note that the Royal Commission ‘identified the need to improve the delivery of health care to meet the needs of older persons and their carers’ and that the ‘greater involvement of older persons and their carers in research to develop solutions was recommended.’
The East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT) has dived deeply into partnering with consumers for service improvement. ELFT provides mental health and community services to a diverse population in over 100 community and inpatient sites.
This aged care reform roadmap provides an indicative timeline for key reform elements.
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