NSQHS Scope of Service

Consent to disclosure of information relating to health service organisations. An Agency must ensure any contract, agreement or understanding it enters into to provide assessments and/or programs using the Scheme with all organisations assessed too the NSQHS Standards, includes an express written provision for consent on the part of the relevant health service organisation: (i) to the provision to the Commission, by the Agency, of demographic information, accreditation outcome data or other information in respect of the health service organisation, or any of its facilities or services, of the kind required to be reported in accordance with the Policy and the Agency’s conditions of approval (reportable information); and (ii) to the disclosure of any such reportable information to the relevant regulator by the Agency or the Commission at any time; and (iii) to the inclusion of certain reportable information relating to demography and assessment outcomes of the health service organisation, as determined by the Commission from time to time, in public reporting on individual health service organisations; and (iv) to the inclusion of certain reportable information relating to demography and assessment outcomes of the health service organisation, as determined by the Commission from time to time, in routine aggregated public reporting by the Commission of assessment outcomes of health service organisations. (v) to the provision of documentation or other information concerning an assessment process as part of investigating a complaint or breach under the Policy or monitoring compliance with the Policy or conditions of approval as an accrediting agency. (vi) to the agreement for the Commission’s representatives to participate in observation visits of approved accrediting agency during an assessment.