Senate debates

Thursday, 4 February 2021

Bills

Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Serious Incident Response Scheme and Other Measures) Bill 2020; In Committee

1:28 pm

Photo of Richard ColbeckRichard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services) Share this | Hansard source

I'm happy to repeat it. From 1 July this year, under the national mandatory quality indicator program, providers will be required to report all care recipient falls. So we have two things working in concert: we have the quality indicator program and we also have the Serious Incident Response Scheme. They will be required to report all falls, including those which result in major injury, to Health through My Aged Care. So we have two systems working together. All falls will be reported under the quality indicator program, and that will then flow through to the rating system that providers get under the reporting of the quality indicators, which are also publicly reported.

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