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National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards and their use in a Model National Accreditation Scheme – COAG Decision Regulation Impact Statement – Australian Health Ministers’ Conference

On 12 November 2010, the Australian Health Ministers’ Conference endorsed a set of National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards and a Model National Accreditation Scheme and decided to apply them. Both the Standards and Accreditation Scheme were developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. The Standards are an explicit statement of the level of care consumers should be able to expect from health services. The Model National Accreditation Scheme provides the process for accreditation of health services organisations and reporting of performance against the Standards.  The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care prepared a decision making RIS that was provided to the Australian Health Ministers’ Conference for their decision.  The RIS was assessed as adequate by the Office of Best Practice Regulation.