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Priority Area Recommendations across: - Governance for safety, quality, ethics and security - Sovereign Capabilities - Accelerating the adoption of AI across healthcare - Workforce - Consumers - Industry - Research and Development
Overview of the new rights-based Aged Care Act, replacing the Aged Care Act 1997. Covers strengthened quality standards, provider obligations, and consumer rights.
The full text of the Aged Care Act 2024 — the new rights-based legislation replacing the Aged Care Act 1997, strengthening the rights of older Australians and reforming provider obligations and regulatory requirements.
Quality statements to guide appropriate antimicrobial use across health care settings, reducing resistance and improving patient outcomes.
Describes the rights of patients and consumers when accessing health care services in Australia — a foundational document for consumer-centred governance and accreditation.
The Australian Privacy Principles (APP) guidelines outline the mandatory requirements of the APPs, how we’ll interpret the APPs, and matters we may take into account when exercising our functions and powers under the Privacy Act 1988. Both the APPs and the APP guidelines apply to any organisation or agency the Privacy Act covers. The Privacy Act covers Australian Government agencies and organisations with an annual turnover of more than $3 million, and some other organisations. The Privacy Act cover some small business operators (organisations with an annual turnover of $3 million or less), including: a private sector health service provider — an organisation that provides a health service ...
Mandatory care minute targets requiring residential aged care providers to deliver a minimum amount of direct care time per resident per day — including registered nurse time. A key workforce and quality compliance obligation.
Key points APP 1 outlines the requirements for an APP entity to manage personal information in an open and transparent way. An APP entity must take reasonable steps to implement practices, procedures and systems that will ensure it complies with the APPs and any binding registered APP code, and is able to deal with related inquiries and complaints. An APP entity must have a clearly expressed and up-to-date APP Privacy Policy about how it manages personal information. An APP entity must take reasonable steps to make its APP Privacy Policy available free of charge and in an appropriate form (usually on its website). An APP entity must, upon request, take reasonable steps to provide a person or body with a copy of its APP Privacy Policy in the particular form requested. From 10 December 2026, an APP entity must include additional information in its APP Privacy Policy if it arranges for a computer program to use personal information to make decisions that could reasonably be expected to significantly affect the rights or interests of an individual.[1]
Evidence-based statements describing the care patients should be offered for specific clinical conditions. Designed to reduce unwarranted variation.
National framework for clinical coding practice in Australia — setting out the principles, governance, workforce standards, and quality assurance requirements for accurate and consistent clinical coding.
The legislated code of conduct setting out the behaviour and standards expected of aged care workers and providers — covering safe, respectful, and person-centred care. Enforceable under the new Aged Care Act.
The globally recognised framework for enterprise risk management, integrating strategy and performance. Provides principles for designing, implementing, and evaluating risk management across an organisation.
The single entry point for information and services supporting Australian Government agencies and departments in their digital government agenda.
Evidence-based resources supporting aged care providers to deliver quality palliative care and end-of-life care within residential and community settings.
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has developed prioritised mitigation strategies, in the form of the Strategies to mitigate cyber security incidents, to help organisations protect themselves against various cyber threats. The most effective of these mitigation strategies are the Essential Eight.
The leading global standard for health care data exchange. FHIR defines how health information is structured, shared, and accessed across systems.
This version of the essential practices helps your organisation strengthen how it governs AI. This guidance is for teams that: build or customise AI systems use AI in more complex ways manage higher-risk use cases need stronger controls and oversight want more detailed or specialist guidance. Things to keep in mind Some practices apply across your whole organisation. These includes: governance frameworks clear roles AI registers supply chain accountability.
Board of directors and executive committee Embedding cyber security To ensure that cyber security is embedded throughout an organisation, it is important that the board of directors or executive committee commits to defining clear roles and responsibilities for cyber security and integrating cyber security throughout all business functions within their organisation. They should also align their organisation’s cyber security strategy with their organisation’s overarching strategic direction and business strategy and seek regular briefings or reporting on the cyber security posture of their organisation and the threat environment in which it operates.
The global authority for health data interoperability standards — including HL7 v2 messaging, CDA clinical documents, and FHIR. Essential for any organisation working with digital health data exchange.
Reporting on individual residential aged care home performance against mandatory care minute targets — enabling providers, consumers, and regulators to monitor direct care delivery at the facility level.
Australia's official clinical coding classification system — covering ICD-10-AM (diagnosis coding), ACHI (procedure coding), and ACS (Australian Coding Standards). The national standard for hospital activity data and casemix funding.
The national authority responsible for health care and aged care pricing, classification, and costing — including casemix funding models, activity-based funding, and the ICD-10-AM classification system.
Module supporting integrated care across health and aged care settings — designed to complement the NSQHS Standards and Aged Care Quality Standards for organisations delivering services across both sectors.
The global body for developing and publishing international standards across industries — including quality management (ISO 9001), information security (ISO 27001), and risk management (ISO 31000) frameworks widely adopted in healthcare governance.
Strategic roadmap for achieving seamless, secure data sharing across the Australian health system using FHIR and national standards.
Australia's framework for a digitally enabled health system — setting out priorities for secure, interoperable, and consumer-centred digital health.
Establishes a coordinated approach to digital health standards adoption in Australia, including interoperability, terminology, and clinical information standards.
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care released this model in June 2026, replacing the 2017 National Model Clinical Governance Framework. It is a short, principles-based document built around six foundations of clinical governance: leading systems and organisational culture; partnering with patients, carers and consumers; building a healthy workforce culture; enabling high-quality and integrated clinical practice; managing and reducing risk; and using data for better care. Its significance for directors is the shift from accreditation compliance to culture, and the explicit accountability it places on boards and executives — including oversight of psychosocial safety, cultural safety, and digitally and AI-enabled care. The six foundations will structure the Clinical Governance Standard in the third edition of the NSQHS Standards. Why we've included it: although scoped to acute health services, the six foundations map closely to what aged care boards are now expected to evidence under the Aged Care Act 2024. It is a useful benchmark for any board testing whether its clinical governance is real or documentary.
The eight NSQHS Standards provide a nationally consistent framework for safety and quality in health service organisations. Mandatory for accreditation.
Quality standards for NDIS providers covering rights and responsibilities, governance, service delivery, and the service environment.
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has released Post-quantum questions to ask your vendors, a new publication designed to help organisations assess the readiness of third-party suppliers of products or services for the transition to PQC. Future advances in quantum computing are expected to undermine widely used traditional public-key cryptographic algorithms. PQC includes cryptographic algorithms that are designed to remain secure against attacks from both classical and quantum computers. As organisations prepare for this transition, third-party products and services will play a critical role in supporting the adoption of quantum-resistant cryptography within recommended timeframes. The publication provides practical, vendor-neutral questions that organisations can use during procurement activities, contract renewals and vendor assurance processes. The guidance helps organisations: identify cryptographic dependencies assess quantum-related risks prioritise transition activities evaluate PQC implementation plans maintain effective vendor engagement throughout the transition.
National program requiring residential aged care providers to collect and report quality indicator data across key care domains — driving transparency and continuous improvement.
The landmark report with 148 recommendations for reforming aged care in Australia. Essential reading for providers navigating the reform landscape.
Framework requiring aged care providers to identify, record, manage, resolve, and report serious incidents — a key compliance obligation.
The single assessment system for aged care — streamlining how older Australians are assessed for Support at Home and residential care, replacing multiple assessment pathways with one consistent framework.
The international clinical terminology standard used for consistent, computable representation of clinical concepts across electronic health records and health information systems.
Sparked is Australia's FHIR Accelerator, delivering products and services that improve healthcare information exchange. This page brings together the programme's five core work streams: Meaning & Context — the national data standards for interoperability (AUCDI and AUeReqDI) Language & Terms — clinical terminology ValueSets for radiology referrals (RANZCR) and pathology requests (RCPA) Sharing & Exchange — FHIR Implementation Guides including AU Core, AU Patient Summary and AU eRequesting Testing — piloting of FHIR standards supported by shared infrastructure and tooling Implement — a reference implementation and testing service for FHIR-based applications Useful for providers, vendors and boards seeking to understand the national direction on digital health data standards and what conformance will require.
The strengthened standards applying across residential care, home care, and Support at Home — with greater emphasis on clinical care, food and nutrition, diversity, and the aged care workforce. Commenced alongside the Aged Care Act 2024 reforms.
The new Support at Home program replacing the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP), Home Care Packages, and Short-Term Restorative Care. A single unified program for in-home aged care support from July 2025.
Operational guidance for providers delivering services under the Support at Home program — covering eligibility, classification, funding, and service delivery requirements.
Advice, guidance and publications from the The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD). Find the latest cyber security advice, guidance and publications
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