The Australian Government’s quality and accreditation framework provides assurance to care recipients of aged care services.  It involves creating management systems that use contributions from everybody associated with a service, both professionally and otherwise, not only to achieve a standard of quality, but to continually work to improve that standard.

Aged care services must meet their ‘accreditation requirement’ under the Aged Care Act 1997 (the Act) to be eligible to receive Australian Government care subsidy for their care recipients. Services meet that requirement by being accredited by the Quality Agency. Details of all accreditation decisions made by the Agency may be obtained from the Quality Agency’swebsite.