Aged Care Quality Standards Community of Practice

MAC invites you to the Aged Care Quality Standards Community of Practice session meetings.

Come and join us as we overview and discuss Aged Care Quality Audits, Aged Care Quality Strengthened Standards, and recent ACQSC Guidance resources

We look forward to welcoming you and to working together to share experiences and knowledge and exchange ideas to learn, progress and develop service and delivery systems that enable continuous improvement to meet the current Aged Care Quality Standards and Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards requirements.

The session Agenda and associated resource materials are attached for your reference:

Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards
https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/the-strengthened-aged-care-quality-standards-final-draft

Sector Performance Report (Oct -Dec 2023)
Overview of current non-compliance issues in CHSP and HCP services

Strengthened Standards Guidance Resources
(focus on Standards 1,2,3,4. of 7 Standards)

Standard 1: The Person
https://www.agedcarequality.gov.au/resource-library/draft-provider-guidance-standard-1

Standard 2: The Organisation
https://www.agedcarequality.gov.au/resource-library/draft-provider-guidance-standard-2

Standard 3: Care and Services
https://www.agedcarequality.gov.au/resource-library/draft-provider-guidance-standard-3

Standard 4: The Environment
https://www.agedcarequality.gov.au/resource-library/draft-provider-guidance-standard-4

Preparation for Quality Audits and Guidance resources

Draft audit methodology
https://www.agedcarequality.gov.au/resource-library/draft-audit-methodology

Draft guidance for aged care workers
https://www.agedcarequality.gov.au/resource-library/draft-guidance-aged-care-workers

Draft pre-audit preparation tool
https://www.agedcarequality.gov.au/resource-library/draft-pre-audit-preparation-tool