Standard 5: Clinical care explains your responsibilities to provide safe and quality clinical care.
Good clinical care improves a person’s quality of life, independence and confidence. Clinical care should always be person-centred, inclusive, safe, effective and coordinated.
Under this standard, you must:
- use clinical governance to manage and improve the safety and quality of your clinical care services
- apply antimicrobial stewardship systems, minimise infection risks, and control infections when providing clinical care
- make sure you use medicines in a safe and quality way
- make sure the clinical care you provide is thorough, safe and good quality
- identify and manage clinical risks that can have a high impact (big effect) and happen often
- meet the clinical care needs of people who have cognitive impairment
- meet the needs, goals and preferences of people in palliative and end-of-life care.
You can find more information on the Standard 5 guidance page.
Who Standard 5 applies to
Standard 5 applies to Australian Government-funded aged care providers registered in:
- Category 5 – nursing and transition care
- Category 6 – residential care (including respite).
Outcome 5.1 Clinical governance also applies to providers registered in Category 4 that provide care management or restorative care management services.
Resources
These help providers and workers understand and comply with Standard 5: Clinical care. They also encourage you to follow best practice in how you provide services and help you to continuously improve.
- Standard 5: Clinical Care - Provider fact sheet
- Standard 5: Clinical Care - Introductory video
- Access our strengthened Quality Standards resources on our Guidance and resources page
