The Quality Standards Resource Centre helps extend understanding of the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, which take effect from 1 November 2025. The Resource Centre will be updated to reflect key changes made to the draft strengthened Standards. You can search for resources by using keywords, or filtering by standard, outcome, audience and theme. Before using the Resource Centre, please read the terms of use.
Person-centred care consumer resources
The poster and video will support you in understanding person-centred care.
A3 poster — What is person-centred care? (PDF 1.04 MB)
Consumer guide — What is person-centred care? (PDF 1.79 MB)
What is dignity of risk? consumer resources
The Commission has developed a number of resources to help aged care consumers understand what dignity of risk is and what actions you should expect from your provider. The dignity of risk is another way of saying you have the right to live the life you choose.
A3 poster — What is dignity of risk? (PDF 351.01 KB)
A4 guide — What is dignity of risk? (PDF 404.72 KB)
IPC Self assessment checklists
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (the Commission) undertakes a range of regulatory activities to monitor compliance and mitigate risk to aged care consumers. The Commission has incorporated spot check monitoring of infection control practice into its usual regulatory activities. You can find more information about Infection control spot checks here.
To Dip or Not to Dip - Implementation Guide for Nurse and Pharmacist Champions
To Dip or Not to Dip (TDONTD) is a quality improvement intervention successfully implemented in UK and Australian aged care homes to improve UTI assessment and antibiotic prescribing appropriateness.
This implementation guide has been drawn from the experiences of homes and champions who have implemented TDONTD, along with feedback from aged care nurses and personal care assistants who have used TDONTD resources.
Supporting the dining experience for people living with dementia – Providers and workers guide
This guide is about how to support people living with dementia to maintain good nutrition and enjoy positive dining experiences.
This resource may refer to information that will be updated from 1 November 2025 to align with the new Aged Care Act and Quality Standards.
User guide to the Clinical Pathway for older people in aged care homes: suspected urinary tract infections
This user guide relates to the 'Clinical Pathway for older people in aged care homes: suspected urinary tract infections (UTIs)'.
Provider Governance Policy
Under the new Act, registered providers will need to meet certain governance obligations.
Our Provider Governance Policy outlines our expectations of providers and guiding principles of good governance. It includes:
- definitions and principles of good governance
- provider governance obligations
- how we collect provider governance information
- how we respond to provider governance risks.
Provider Governance Policy (PDF 2.07 MB)
Antimicrobial Stewardship Self-Assessment Tool and User Guide
This tool and user guide supports residential aged care services in self-assessing their antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) practices. It covers AMS governance, policies, education, monitoring, and feedback, aiming to improve antibiotic use and reduce risks associated with antimicrobial resistance. The resources helps identify gaps and develop action plans to enhance AMS activities and patient care. This resource may refer to information that will be updated from 1 July 2025 to align with the new Aged Care Act and Quality Standards.
Effective incident management system checklist
This resource provides a checklist to help aged care providers ensure their incident management systems meet regulatory requirements. It outlines key responsibilities, reporting processes, and steps to review and manage incidents effectively, aligning with the Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) guidelines.
This resource may refer to information that will be updated from 1 November 2025 to align with the new Aged Care Act and Quality Standards.
Effective incident management system checklist (October 2022) (PDF 675.36 KB)
Goal planning tool
This resource is a goal planning tool designed to support aged care providers in improving food, dining, nutrition, and consumer choice. It helps providers set objectives, track progress, and implement actions to enhance service quality, ensuring that people’s preferences and dietary needs are consistently met.
This resource may refer to information that will be updated from 1 November 2025 to align with the new Aged Care Act and Quality Standards.
Goal planning tool (PDF 899.52 KB)
Food, nutrition and dining: a reflection on practice
This training PowerPoint is a presentation that trainers/managers can download, customise and use to promote discussion and educate their staff to support and improve the food, nutrition and dining experience of consumers in their care.
The resource is designed to support reflective discussions about what ‘best practice’ looks like and a reflection on how it applies in practice. This resource may refer to information that will be updated from 1 November 2025 to align with the new Aged Care Act and Quality Standards.
The new Financial and Prudential Standards
The new Financial and Prudential Standards will be introduced with the commencement of the new Aged Care Act. The new Standards set out the minimum requirements for good financial and prudential management of registered aged care providers. Registered providers must comply with the Financial and Prudential Standards that apply to them as a condition of their registration.
The new Financial and Prudential Standards (PDF 1.59 MB)
