Community Audit Tools Now Available!

ACQA is pleased to announce general availability of our Community Aged Care Audit Tools, for those organisations providing Home Care and Assisted Living services to Consumers. Alongside our existing Residential Aged Care Audits, we now support Auditing across all sectors covered by the incoming Single Quality Framework. “The release of our Community Audits is a…

Single Quality Framework Second Edition Release Notes

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…

ACQA Submission to Staffing Ratio Disclosure

The Aged Care Quality Association was invited to participate on an inquiry into the Aged Care Amendment (Staffing Disclosure) Bill 2018 at Parliament House in Canberra on 26 October 2018. Prior to manking it’s submission, input and feedback was sought from nurses, nurse managers and directors of member Aged Care providers, and their feedback was…

ACQA to attend Inquiry into Staffing Ratio Disclosure

ACQA has been invited to attend an Inquiry into the Aged Care Amendment (Staffing Ratio Disclosure) Bill 2018 at Parliament House, Canberra on Friday 26th October. ACQA will be representing our memberships’ feedback, making suggestions for improvement and relaying the impact this will have on their organisations. We have created a short-form member survey with…

Additional Network Meetings, South Australia & Victoria

ACQA is pleased to announce the additional dates and locations for Network Meetings in 2018: 2/11/2018 – Horsham, VIC 30/11/2018 – Nuriootpa, SA You can register for an event here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/aged-care-quality-association-14924261626 With the transition to the new Single Quality Framework for Aged Care now in full swing, our Network Meetings are more valuable than ever. Attendance…

2018 Network Meetings Announced

ACQA is pleased to announce the following dates and locations for our Network Meetings in 2018: 02/03/2018 – Gumeracha Hospital 25/05/2018 – Nuriootpa Senior Citizens 31/08/2018 – Gumeracha Hospital 30/11/2018 – Nuriootpa Senior Citizens You can register for an event here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/aged-care-quality-association-14924261626 Network Meetings are a great place to connect, learn and be inspired. Content is…