How will implementation of Common Standards benefit the community care industry?
Both service providers and care recipients will benefit: Service providers will be able to provide more community care resulting from a simplified and streamlined quality reporting system. The time service providers currently spend reporting the same aspect of quality across multiple programs may be reduced. The time gained through streamlining may then be available to provide extra community care. Service providers will also benefit from the introduction of the new approach to quality reporting. This approach will allow improvements in the quality of systems such as management systems to contribute directly to, and result in, improvements in the provision of the care itself. Care recipients will benefit from increased opportunities by service providers to provide more community care and an ongoing increase in quality of that care resulting from the introduction of the new approach to quality reporting.
