National Clinical Quality Registry Program

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:

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.

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