Risk Management Now Available!

The October 2015 issue of JBI Matters is now online http://joannabriggs.org/jbi-matters.html.

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, We are pleased to announce that we now support Auditing across all sectors covered by the incoming Single Quality Framework. In addition to our Residential Aged Care Audits, we are introducing a complete separate set of Audits, covering Homecare and Assisted Living. Practically-speaking, providers using these Audits will have a separate site set…

Advance Health Directive July 1st 2014 marks the commencement of the Advance Care Directives Act 2013 and associated amendments to the Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act1995 (Consent Act) and the Guardianship and Administration Act 1993 (GA Act).

The draft Standards are available on the Ageing and Aged Care website. Standards are expected to be implemented from 1 July 2018.

Dear Members, Further to our previous Public Announcement, we wanted to offer more detail as to changes in this release. As part of this release, we have made a number of changes to the audit timetable. New Audits Added We have added three audits; (1) Food Safety Audit, (2) Infection Control Audit, and (3) Privacy and…