Dear Members,
As part of our commitment to supporting Aged Care Providers and Services, the Aged Care Quality Association Incorporated (ACQA) is running a number of free Accreditation Readiness Roadshows.
There events are in-person, facilitated by experienced consultants and free to attend.
Find out more or register here: https://agedcarequalityassociation.eventbrite.com/
Hope to see you there!
Steve Charman, Chairman, ACQA
Nominated and legally appointed representatives What’s New? What Can We Learn? Report : Working with nominated and legally appointed representatives.
Updates to use of alcohol based hand rub in food preparation areas.
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…
Dear Members, Gail Harding represented ACQA feedback, concerns and suggestions to the the Staffing Ratio Disclosure Inquiry earlier today. Details of our submission are now available on our new website. https://www.acqa.org.au/2018/10/26/acqa-submission-to-staffing-ratio-disclosure/ Special thanks to all those who contributed their thoughts and insights via our feedback survey and directly to the Committee. We appreciate your input….
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, Today we have made a minor update to the timetable for Medication Management. Previously, Feedback Management** was scheduled for April and September. Today we have moved the April audit back to March to help level out workloads and make the audit schedule more consistent across the board. To ensure that your current timetable…
