Today ACQA is pleased to announce a major revision of our Residential Aged Care Audits is going live today. The revisions were designed after a substantial review process by our team after our involvement seeing many facilities through their accreditation preparation, assessment audits and audit response preparation.Updates include: Changes to questions targeting specific feedback from…
Today ACQA is pleased to announce general availability of our brand new Aged Care Risk Management tool. Our Aged Care Risk Tool is the culmination of several months work, and has been developed in partnership with our member services and providers. Risk Categories You can develop a comprehensive Risk Register, tailored to your service, with…
Share the load and get support and practical ideas from other nurse managers and consultants. It is so important to remain connected with your peers during this time of incredible uncertainty because it is too easy to fall into despair created by fear and isolation. The aged care industry has been rocked by the effects…
Today ACQA has released a greatly enhanced set of built-in printable reports which are now available for all users of the ACQA platform. Features for these reports include Report on sites based on selecting individual sites, selecting a group or by site type Graph and compare audit results visually with built-in graphing Review detail in…
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…
ACQA is pleased to announce our second major release of updates relating to the changes required for the new Aged Care Single Quality Framework. On the first of July 2018, we published our first major release with updates on all our existing audits to reference the new Standards. Throughout July, August and September, we released…
After our recent submission to the Aged Care Staffing Ratio Inquiry, ACQA Chairman Gail Harding was interviewed by regional publication The Plains Producer. “It’s nice for our organisation and its members to be recognised in a good news story about Aged Care, ” remarked Gail, “making a meaningful contribution to improving our industry has been…
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 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…
In line with the Draft Single Quality Framework, ACQA has been working through the new Aged Care Standards, and authoring changes to our tools and audits. Updates to tools and audits We have updated references on our existing audits to map the new Standards – those are available now. A rewrite of two of the…
