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The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS Standards) are Australia's principal health care standards, and apply to all health services including inpatient, outpatient, and community care. [5] There are 8 standards: Clinical governance; Partnering with consumers; Preventing and controlling infections; Medication safety
It sets out rules on funding, regulation, approval of providers, subsidies and fees, standards, quality of care,rights of people receiving care and non-compliance. [1] It is the basis of the proposed Aged Care Code of Conduct which is to come into effect on 1 December 2022.
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is a royal commission established on 8 October 2018 by the Australian government pursuant to the Royal Commissions Act 1902. The Honourable Richard Tracey AM RFD QC and Ms Lynelle Briggs AO were appointed as Royal Commissioners.
The aged care system in Australia aims to make sure that all older people can receive support and quality care when they need it. [ 35 ] If a person's care needs are less than those supplied by an aged care home, independent living units or retirement villages are an alternative.
Fundamentally healthcare and hospital accreditation is about improving how care is delivered to patients and the quality of the care they receive. Accreditation has been defined as "A self-assessment and external peer assessment process used by health care organisations to accurately assess their level of performance in relation to established standards and to implement ways to continuously ...
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is the medicine and therapeutic regulatory agency of the Australian Government. [4] As part of the Department of Health and Aged Care, the TGA regulates the safety, quality, efficacy and advertising in Australia of therapeutic goods (which comprise medicines, medical devices, biologicals and certain other therapeutic goods).
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Primary health care and aged care services are overseen by DHAC, while tertiary health services are administered by state and territory governments. The department is responsible for programs such as Medicare , the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme , and agencies such as the Therapeutic Goods Administration and the National Health and Medical ...