Reporting incidents under the Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS)
Clinical governance is an integrated set of leadership behaviours, policies, procedures, responsibilities, relationships, planning, monitoring and improvement mechanisms that are implemented to support safe, quality clinical care and good clinical outcomes for each consumer.
The Aged Care Quality Standards require aged care services that provide clinical care to demonstrate the use of a clinical governance framework (Standard 8, 3(e)).
For more information on Clinical Governance and the stakeholders involved in developing these resources, visit the Clinical Governance page at the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission or view the links below.
Reporting incidents under the Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS)
Incident management under the SIRS
Benefits of effective incident management
To help providers understand issues and their responsibilities around minimising the use of physical and/or chemical restraint, the Commission has released scenarios involving physical and/or chemical restraint.
Reducing the use of sedatives
Restrictive Practices and restraints
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