5.4: Aged Care Standards Agency

The 1997-1998 Portfolio Budget Statements, informs Senators and Members of Parliament of the proposed allocation of resources to portfolios outcomes and their objectives and targets including the agencies within the Health and Family Services portfolio.

In this section:

Budget Measures

Objective

To improve the quality of care, quality of life and respect for the dignity of consumers of residential aged care services.

Priority outcomes

Accreditation of all residential aged care services by January 2001.
Promotion of quality management to residential care services.
Quality assurance of residential care standards achieved in a costeffective manner.
Useful information available to assist consumers in their choice of a quality aged care service.

Strategies

Encourage lead services to nominate for early accreditation.
Develop and implement an information and training program on quality management.
Target resources through a risk management approach to ensure timely and decisive responses to cases of poor performance among non-accredited services.
Publish accreditation reports on accredited services.

Performance indicators and targets

Effectiveness

Indicator	Target	Information source and reporting frequency
Progress toward all services being accredited by 1 January 2001 (Priority Outcome 1; Strategies 1, 2)	Accreditation in 10 per cent of services in 199798	Aged Care Standards Agency Annual

Efficiency

Indicator	Target	Information source and reporting frequency
Costs of Agency audits and risk management assessments (Priority Outcome 3; Strategy 3)	Audit costs competitive with those of non-Agency auditors	Aged Care Standards Agency Annual

Quality

Indicator	Target	Information source and reporting frequency
Average compliance with standards in residential care facilities (Priority Outcomes 1,2; Strategies 1,3,4)	Increase on previous years in number of facilities complying	Aged Care Standards Agency Annual
Achievement of quality beyond minimum statutory requirements (Priority Outcome 1; Strategies 1,3,4)	10 per cent of services accredited in 199798	Aged Care Standards Agency Annual

Equity

Indicator	Target	Information source and reporting frequency
The proportion of services achieving residential care standards by region (Priority Outcomes 2,4; Strategies 1,2 )	10 per cent of services accredited	Aged Care Standards Agency Annual

Performance assessment: evaluation

No major evaluations are planned for this Sub-program in 1997-98.

There are no Budget Measures for this Sub-program.

How the program is resourced: reconciliation of appropriations to the program and summary of portfolio outlays (Excel 50 KB)

Variations to Program Outlays 1996-97 to 1997-98 (Excel 24 KB)