Resources

This blog from Maddocks on the Mic discusses aged care provider governance from a legal perspective focusing on recommendations from the Royal Aged Care Commission. (19 min)

This blog, written by Adjunct Professor Cathy Balding for Meaningful Ageing Australia, discusses clinical governance in relation to aspects of physical, emotional and spiritual health in aged care.

The Riverview Lutheran Rest Home framework provides a guide to inform clinical governance. This is done by setting out key structures, systems and processes that enable whole of organisation accountability for the delivery of quality, safe clinical care based principles of person-centred care.

This report describes how to establish a clinical governance framework, based on the key principles in aged care regulations and standards (e.g., the Aged Care Quality Standards and the Commonwealth Aged Care Act 1997).