The National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSHQS) Standards set out a consistent, nationwide benchmark for the level of care that consumers should expect from health service organisations. Get a CertCrowd system for compliance with NSQHS requirements.
The 2nd edition of the standards is the current version and is developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. The commission is preparing to develop the National Safety and Quality Health Services (NSQHS) Standards (third edition) with consultation commencing in 2025.
The primary aim of the NSQHS Standards is to protect the public from harm and improve the quality of health services.
There are 8 key standards that form NSQHS, these being: Clinical Governance Standard, Partnering with Consumers Standard, Preventing and Controlling Infection Standard, Medication Safety Standard, Comprehensive Care Standard, Communicating for Safety Standard, Blood Management Standard, and Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration Standard.
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CertCrowd provides a simple, affordable, and accessible approach to the implementation and compliance with NSQHS Standards. Whether your organisation needs a system, assistance to implement all or parts of the framework, or need to get audited or certified; CertCrowd has the solutions for you.
Get a NSQHS system in place with CertCrowd quickly and simply, follow our Start-Up Guide or engage with our consultants for a guaranteed compliance process, you'll be ready for your audit sooner than you think with us taking all of the stress away or providing useful tools and frameworks so you can do it yourself.
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Implement your NSQHS system with minimal hassle with CertCrowd. CertCrowd comes with all the policies and procedures, actions, assessments, internal audits, risk assessments, incident management, and reports you need - follow our Start-Up Guide or get us to help you customise your system to your specific needs and processes.
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Ensure all of the NSQHS compliance tasks including internal audit, management review, corrective action, and risk assessments are completed and up to date - your CertCrowd system helps ensure you comply, you have everything done and your organisation is audit ready.
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The frameworks, implement one or many frameworks instantly and comply with the standard or framework today - including ISO 9001, ISO 27001, NIST, ISO 14001, etc.
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Manage assets, competence, legal, risk, employee and suppliers through our registers, including actions to review, inspect, calibrate or renew.
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Create actions for inspections, audits, reviews and assessments, ensuring tasks are allocated and completed - stay compliant by scheduling actions weekly, monthly, or annually as required.
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Manage incidents, corrective actions, non-conformity, change requests and breaches. Create forms and workflows to report and resolve any type of issue.
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Undertake risk assessments with a simple and flexible process. Manage risks and controls your way by mapping your process into our flexible software.
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Build a Quality Manual, Information Security Management System, or HSEQ Manual in minutes utilising our AI generated Manual. Link policies and procedures to actions and frameworks.
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Build custom reports and schedule reports to be delivered straight to your inbox. Stay on top of the system and your team with dashboard reporting, highlighting areas to focus on.
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Schedule alerts - daily, weekly or monthly to ensure you never miss an action or task. Alert stakeholders in real time to significant issues. Message staff in-app and resolve compliance questions fast.
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Download our compliance checklists and see how compliant your system is - learn about the requirements of the standard with our plain English checklist.
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