Notices to agree

The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (the Commission) has a role in ensuring providers, including Commonwealth-funded aged care service providers, comply with their responsibilities under the Aged Care Act 1997 (the Act), or funding agreement.

Where a provider’s non-compliance has resulted in the Commission considering revoking their approval to deliver aged care through a sanction, the Commission may – in certain circumstances – first issue the provider a Notice to Agree (NTA). These circumstances include where:

• the provider has failed to give an undertaking to remedy their non-compliance
• failed to comply with an undertaking to remedy their non-compliance
• made submissions in response to a non-compliance notice that are unsatisfactory, or
• where the Commissioner is satisfied the provider’s non-compliance poses an immediate and severe risk to the safety, health and well-being of care recipients

An NTA sets out actions a provider is required to do (including necessary timeframes). Should a provider fail to agree, their approval to provide Australian Government subsidised aged care may be revoked. Once a provider has agreed to an NTA, they are required to do the actions they’ve agreed to. If they don’t they may be sanctioned.

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