About the program
Clinical quality registries (CQRs) are organisations that monitor the quality of health care by collecting information from patients who undergo certain medical procedures.
This 4-year program will fund CQRs 3 ways.
1. Funding support for existing national CQRs
Ten existing national CQRs will continue to receive funding support:
- Australasian Pelvic Floor Procedure Registry
- Australasian Shunt Registry
- Australia New Zealand Trauma Registry
- Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry
- Australian Breast Device Registry
- Australian Cystic Fibrosis Data Registry
- Australian Dementia Network Registry
- Australian Spine Registry
- Australian Diabetes Clinical Quality Registry
- National Cardiac Registry.
2. New funding streams for national CQRs
Stream 1
Stream 1 will start from 2024–25. It will provide funding support for a small number of high-priority national CQRs. These will be selected via an application process.
The eligibility criteria for ‘high priority’ are still to be determined. However, we expect they will include CQRs in areas of high patient impact and/or high cost.
This will likely include those in the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care’s Prioritised list of clinical domains for clinical quality registry development and/or emerging areas of priority or need (for example where there is evidence of unwarranted variation in health care or outcomes).
Stream 2
Stream 2 will start from 2024–25. It will provide grant funding for short-term projects that help boost CQR capacity. This could include CQRs not in scope of Stream 1.
3. Funding pilot activities
The program will also fund pilot activities that support the continued implementation of the National Strategy for Clinical Quality Registries and Virtual Registries 2020–2030.
Purpose
The program will:
- track the safety and performance of treatments and devices
- improve performance reporting for clinicians and hospitals.
It will also support the implementation of the national strategy.
Who we work with
We will work with the:
- CQR sector, including clinicians and consumers
- states and territories
- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
The commission has also developed the Framework for Australian clinical quality registries and hosts the Australian Register of Clinical Registries.
Learn more about the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.
Apply for funding
We intend to advertise several funding opportunities during 2023–24.
You can apply for:
- Stream 1 and the pilot activities via AusTender
- Stream 2 via Grant Connect.
Pilot activities are currently open via AusTender.
We will include the timing, scope, and eligibility criteria for each funding opportunity in the published documents.
Stay informed
Please register on AusTender and Grant Connect to hear when we publish new opportunities. You can also keep up to date by checking our communiques.
We will keep you informed of any changes to funding opportunities on this web page.