Medi-Nav Orientation Resource v6, 2024

4.3 Accreditation 4.3.1 National accreditation The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare has legislative responsibility for maintaining and implementing the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) standards under the Australian Health Service Safety and Quality Accreditation Scheme. The NSQHS has eight standards, focusing on areas that are essential to drive the implementation and use of safety and quality systems: + Standard 1 – Clinical Governance + Standard 2 – Partnering with Consumers + Standard 3 – Preventing and Controlling Healthcare-Associated Infections + Standard 4 – Medication Safety + Standard 5 – Comprehensive Care + Standard 6 – Communicating for Safety + Standard 7 – Blood Management + Standard 8 – Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration These standards provide a quality assurance mechanism that tests whether the relevant systems are in place to ensure minimum standards of safety and quality are met and a quality improvement mechanism that allows health service organisations to realise developmental goals. The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Service within the department are responsible for the NSQHS standards and managing accreditation. Further information about the NSQHS standards is available at: https://clinicalexcellence.qld.gov.au/resources/audit-tools-national-safety-and-quality-health-service- standards The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards is an approved accreditation provider to assess health organisations against the NSQHS standards. Information about national accreditation is available at: https://www.achs.org.au/our-services/accreditation-and-standards 4.3.2 Prevocational accreditation Prevocational Medical Accreditation Queensland (PMAQ), as a unit within the Queensland Department of Health, administers a system of accreditation that ensures quality education and training for prevocational medical practitioners that enables the provision of safe patient centred care. PMAQ is accredited by the Australian Medical Council (AMC) as the intern training accreditation authority for Queensland, delivering the largest medical accreditation service of its kind in the Pacific with 23 intern training programs currently accredited throughout Queensland.