This standard provides guidance to health service providers about the standard of services they should provide.
Health service providers include:
- registered health practitioners or other individuals who provide a health service
- an entity, other than an individual, who provides a health service (i.e. a health service organisation).
The primary aims of the standards are to protect the public from harm and to improve the quality of health service provision. They provide a quality assurance mechanism that tests whether relevant systems are in place to ensure that expected standards of safety and quality are met.
