Now that the Aged Care Act 2024 and Aged Care Rules 2025 are in effect, we thought it would be helpful to summarise all of our aged care related self-assessments and key resources, to remind you of the many ways SPP can help you transition into the new framework!
Our Aged Care Self-Assessments
Over the last year or so we’ve added and updated a range of detailed self-assessments to help providers:
- Get on top of all of the new requirements
- Undertake gap analysis and create automatic improvement plans
- Access hundreds of comprehensive templates
- Package up compliance reports and required evidence
Here’s a quick snapshot of the self-assessments available in SPP:
Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards
Track compliance with all Outcomes and Actions of the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, with our related templates, policies and info sheets linked throughout. You can automatically transpose compliance reports and evidence straight into the Commission’s Audit Evidence Collection Tool (AECT).
Aged Care Financial and Prudential Standards
Contains all requirements of the three new financial and prudential standards, with links through to our templates for:
- Financial and prudential management system
- Liquidity management strategy
- Investment management strategy
Aged Care Act 2024 – Provider Obligations
We’ve built a comprehensive series of modules to help you understand and monitor your compliance with all of the core obligations and conditions of registration of providers within the Act and Rules.
There are too many to list here, but our modules cover topics including:
- Responsible persons and suitability matters
- Governance requirements
- Workforce vaccinations
- Restrictive practices
- Incidents
- Complaints, Feedback and Whistleblower Disclosures
Associated Provider Compliance Attestation
Associated Providers can use this self-assessment to confirm their understanding of their core obligations under the Act and Rules – as well as provide registered providers with required information and evidence of compliance.
Registered providers can evidence their due diligence by having Associated Providers answer the questions in SPP or the Q&A report spreadsheet.
AECT and CDECT Supporting Documents
Providers are using the self-assessments we’ve built for the AECT, as well as Care Delivery Evidence Collection Tools (CDECTs), to package up their Required Supporting Documents. Of course, we’ve linked all of our relevant resources to each Required Supporting Document.
Our members with multiple facilities are using these self-assessments to ensure that each of their facilities understands what documents they need to provide. Each facility can then package up the appropriate mix of corporate documents together with facility-specific documents.
Our Huge Range of Aged Care Quality Standards Resources
Did you know that we have over 165 resources in our Reading Room that are specifically linked to individual Actions under each Outcome of the Aged Care Quality Standards?
That long list includes templates, policies and checklists to meet requirements of the Act and the Quality Standards, including relating to:
- The Governing Body and Responsible Persons
- The Quality Care Advisory Body and the Consumer Advisory Body
- Associated Providers
- Person-Centred Care
- Choice, Independence and Decision-Making
- Partnering with Individuals
- Clinical Governance
- Comprehensive Care
- Safe and Quality Use of Medicines
- Reportable Incidents
- Feedback, Complaints and Whistleblowing
- Risk Management
- Safeguarding
- Safe Service Environment
Interested in learning more?
Reach out to us if you’d like to learn more about how SPP is helping hundreds of aged care providers transition into the new quality and safety framework!
Please contact us at team@bngonline.com.au or call us on 02 9569 1704.
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