October 2015 Issue of JBI Matters is now online

We gave the Audit Timetable a refresh. Now you can clearly see what’s due and see where an audit is up to in the approval process.

Dear Members, We are pleased to announce a major revision of our Residential Aged Care Audits is going live today. Updates include: Changes to questions targeting specific feedback from recent Accreditation visits, Increased coverage of Standards 1, 3, 4, 7 and 8, in particular around Dignity of Risk, Behaviour Support Plans, SIRS incidents & Prudential…

Organisational Governance and Feedback Management updated today!

Presentation sides from the 2016 Annual ACQA Conference are now available for download. To download the slides, please click on the relevant link below: Medicine Wise – Scott Boerth, Clinical Pharmacist, Healthwise Medication Services Delirium Depression Dementia – Matt Kowald, General Manager Residential Services, Barossa Village Best Practice in Managing the Use of Social Media…

Dear Members, In January we made a change to the timetable for Feedback Management to help level out the audit workloads. In a recent update, we inadvertently rolled back those timetable changes. This issue may mean that you may have missed the Feedback Management audit which is scheduled for last month. As of today, we…

Accreditation Reports on Homes Accreditation reports are now available on the Aged Care Quality Agency Website: https://www.aacqa.gov.au/site/pdfs/reports