Aged care services providing clinical care must use a clinical governance framework. This follows the Aged Care Quality Standards (Standard 8, 3e).
Clinical governance supports safe, quality clinical care and good outcomes. It does this through:
- leadership behaviours
- policies
- procedures
- responsibilities
- relationships
- planning, monitoring and improvement mechanisms.
Provider resources
We've designed these resources to help understand clinical governance.
Core elements
- Leadership and culture
- Partnerships with people who use aged care
- Organisational system
- Monitoring and reporting
- Effective workforce
- Communication and relationships.
For more information, read our Core elements of clinical governance fact sheet (PDF, 716 KB)
Developing the framework
Read our clinical governance framework toolkit (PDF, 425 KB).
Self-assessment tools
- Our service and consumers toolkit (DOCX, 417 KB) identifies user needs and risk areas.
- Our Clinical governance arrangements toolkit (DOCX, 432 KB) helps to improve existing frameworks.
Framework structure
Our Clinical governance framework guide (DOCX, 489 KB) advises on structure and content.
Fact sheets
- Introduction to clinical governance (PDF, 938 KB)
- Clinical governance and the Aged Care Quality Standards (PDF, 792 KB)
Roles and responsibilities for clinical governance (PDF, 694 KB).
