Accreditation Essentials

Most people in Australia will visit an acute hospital in their last year of life. Many of them will die in hospital.

End-of-Life care is important for all and is now part of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS) 2nd Edition (2MB pdf).

End-of-Life Essentials has developed the following resources to assist hospital executives, safety and quality managers and clinicians responsible for accreditation with implementing the six end-of-life care actions in the Comprehensive Care Standard.

Preparing for Hospital Accreditation Resources

• Education and Resources for Hospital Accreditation – Comprehensive Care Standard and end-of-life care. (pdf, 966kb)

Meeting Comprehensive Care Standard End-of-Life Care Actions

• 5.15: The health service organisation has processes to identify patients who are at the end of life. (115kb pdf)
• 5.16: The health service organisation providing end-of-life care has processes to provide clinicians with access to specialist palliative care advice. (107kb pdf)
• 5.17: The health service organisation has process to ensure that current advance care plans:(104kb pdf)
  • a. Can be received from patients
  • b. Are documents in the patient’s health care record.
• 5.18: The health service organisation provides access to supervision and support of the workforce providing end-of-life care (104kb pdf).
• 5.19: The health service organisation has processes for routinely reviewing the safety and quality of end-of-life care that is provided against the planned goals of care. (109kb pdf)
• 5.20: Clinicians support patients, carers and families to make shared decisions about end-of-life care.(115kb pdf)

National Hospital Accreditation Database

The EOLE database allows us to contact you in a timely manner sharing tips and resources relating to care of the dying in your hospital. Upon registration a welcome pack will be sent to you as a thank you.

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