Accreditation – NSQHSS
All public and private hospitals, day hospitals and public dental practices in Australia must be accredited to the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards. At HMSA, our consultants have over 15 years of experience auditing the standards. We have the expertise to lead you and your team through to successful Quality and Risk Management Compliance.
Our team walks with you to develop the following resources for your Day Hospital to ensure your day hospital meets compliance requirements. When you don’t have the resources or your human resources need a guiding hand, we are available to assist you with:
- Develop or undertake a Gap Analysis of your current system against the NSQHS Standards (internal audit)
- Develop Action plans
- Audit schedule development
- Infection, Prevention and Control gap analysis to Standard 3 and AS 5369:2023
- Infection, Prevention and Control Advisory - onsite and remote consulting
To streamline day hospital operations, we will work with you to develop the following policies and procedures for business units:
- Nursing Policies and Procedures
- CSSD
- Peri-operative services
- Risk Management
- Administration
- Human resources reference Manual
- Maintenance Services
- Rehabilitation Services (as required)
- Environmental Services
- Patient Information
At HMSA, we also provide support in developing the following Registers to improve efficiency in governance compliance within day hospitals:
- Risk Management Register
- Incident Register
- Compliments / Complaints Register
- Education and Training Registers
- Documentation Registers
- Chemical Register
- Employee register
