Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission

#EffectiveGovernance 🤝 Good governance is essential to support your workforce and systems that ensure safe and quality care for older people. The Governing for Reform Program has a range of products to support providers with effective governance. 💻 Learn how to be effective in your provider governance with our free online learning module, Effective Governance: https://lnkd.in/gBJbByC9 This flip guide supports the Effective Governance online module 👀 #ACQSC #AgedCare #GoverningForReform #OnlineLearning #Training #ProfessionalDevelopment

Food consistently ranks in the top 5 presenting issues in residential aged care, according to our quarterly analyses of advocacy and information support. It’s hardly surprising, then, that Food for Thought: your choice, your rights, was one of OPAN’s most popular webinars in 2024. Click below to replay the lively discussion, featuring Maggie Beer, Australia’s favourite cook, Jessica Zilujko, director of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission’s Food, Nutrition and Dining Unit, and Rosemary Seam, a member of OPAN’s National Older Persons Reference Group for a lively discussion about what’s changed – and what still needs to be addressed. Replay the webinar, read the transcript and explore the resources here: https://lnkd.in/gScP2WBU

🏠 Residential aged care homes can mean so much more than meets the eye. For some older people it can fill voids of loneliness or isolation while finding friends they can call family. 🗣️ Hear the perspectives of people receiving aged care services in this video and ask yourself how you might create a greater sense of community for your residents. #ACQSC #MyCommunity #AgedCare #Community #Connected #Home #BestPractice

We wish you and your loved ones a safe and joyful festive season and new year✨ 📞 You can still contact us between 9am-5pm weekdays, except for 25 December 2024 and 1 January 2025, on 1800 951 822 📧 email: info@agedcarequality.gov.au 🌐 Website: https://lnkd.in/gjFR6XAs Remember to check in on older relatives, friends and neighbours to make sure they are keeping well this summer 💛 #ACQSC #Festive #Safe #Holidays #HappyNewYear

📢 The December Quality Bulletin, final edition for 2024, is out 🎄 In this edition we cover:  🎇 Insights Reporting - Getting Annual Prudential Compliance Statements on time    🎇 Accommodation price indexing 🎇 Food for thought – Resident feedback on mealtime experience 🎇 Our 2024 Webinar wrap up 🎇 Training and education resources for 2025 Subscribe to the Quality Bulletin to receive regular updates 📧 #ACQSC #AgedCare #News #Newsletter #QualityBulletin 

📰 Out now! Our latest Regulatory Bulletin explores how we use enforceable undertakings to manage non-compliance.  🔎 An enforceable undertaking: 🔹 is a written agreement between the Commission and a provider or person working in aged care. 🔹 explains the actions the provider or person will take to fix risk and non-compliance issues. An enforceable undertaking is legally binding. We monitor the provider or person to make sure they are meeting the terms of their enforceable undertaking. 🔗 Read the bulletin on enforceable undertakings to learn more: https://lnkd.in/g84eEKYx #ACQSC #AgedCare #Enforcement #SafeCare

Catch up on our recent webinar about ‘Workforce responsibilities – the key to delivering a great aged care experience’. Hear from Janet Anderson PSM, Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner and our panel talking about workforce responsibilities, particularly care minutes. We also cover guidance for providers to embed effective workforce governance and management processes. Panellists include: 👤 Peter Edwards, Executive Director, Compliance Management Group 👤 Mark Richardson, Assistant Secretary, Residential Care Funding Reform, Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care ▶ Watch the full recording, here: https://lnkd.in/gP8A2MP2 #ACQSC #AgedCare #Webinar #Workforce #Responsibilities #CareMinutes #Governance

🖤💛❤️We are pleased to be exhibiting at the 2024 First Nations Elders Wellbeing Conference in Cairns (Gimuy) today. The conference is a great avenue to identify models of support and engagement that reflect various cultural practices of our communities, to ensure that First Nations Peoples who are frail aged can live life their way. ℹ️ Find out more about the conference here: https://lnkd.in/gxmzw2hs #ACQSC #AgedCare #FirstNations #Wellbeing #Conference #Cairns #MyAgedCare

📣 Calling all aged care providers, managers and workers! We want to hear from you in our latest sector pulse survey. This is your chance to tell us how things are going and what support you need from us to implement the changes to aged care. Your feedback will help us improve communication, engagement, training and support. Take the online survey now. It takes 15 minutes to complete. 📆 The survey closes Friday 20 December. Share your views at 💻 https://lnkd.in/gcxmkR_V

📣 Attention aged care providers and workers! Just released – new online learning modules for aged care workers to learn about the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards 💻 These interactive modules are designed to give you a foundational understanding of the strengthened Quality Standards, supporting you to deliver rights-based, person-centred care in line with the new Aged Care Act 👵👩  🔗 The modules are available on our online learning platform, Alis: https://lnkd.in/gKgXv8a  Access to Alis is free for government-funded aged care providers and their employees. If your organisation is not already registered, they can sign up on our website: https://lnkd.in/ggT7ymDx #ACQSC #AgedCare #StrengthenedStandards #Workers #OnlineLearning Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care