Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS)

Joint letter from the Commission and the Department of Health and Aged Care to approved providers on medication management.

A fact sheet for volunteer managers in aged care.

Letter from Ann Wunsch, Executive Director – Approvals and Serious Incident Notifications, regarding information about your SIRS responsibilities and reporting obligations.

This webinar explored the early lessons and emerging trends since the extension of the Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) to home services on 1 December 2022. The discussion focused on the importance of quality reporting and shared insights learned since 1 December 2022.
 

A new learning resource for providers, featuring case study insights from ‘unreasonable use of force’ incidents reported to the Commission is now available. 

On 1 December 2022, the Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) was extended from residential aged care to include home care and flexible aged care depvered in a home or community setting.

This fact sheet for home services care recipients explains what the SIRS is, what is expected of providers, what a SIRS reportable incident is and how to seek help if needed.

This document contains responses to questions asked during our SIRS for home services webinar series.

This Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) fact sheet covers the reporting of incidents relating to Reportable incidents: missing consumers. The fact sheet has been developed for providers of home services.

This Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) fact sheet covers the reporting of incidents relating to Reportable incidents: inappropriate use of restrictive practices. The fact sheet has been developed for providers of home services.