Submission: Draft guide for primary and community healthcare standards February 2023
Osteopathy Australia Submission to the Australian Commission on the Safety and Quality Healthcare's guide for the Primary & Community Health Care Standards
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The State Insurance and Care Governance Amendment Regulation 2022 have now commenced and apply within the SIRA NSW Workers Compensation Scheme.
The amended regulation provides SIRA with new directive powers including directing a service provider:
These regulations are a part of a new regulatory framework that has been established to manage outlier providers who have proven a pattern of poor practice and have not rectified behaviour.
The full legislation can be found here: https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/pdf/asmade/sl-2022-818.
SIRA has made changes to the proposed draft regulations in response to feedback received from various stakeholders including Osteopathy Australia. This feedback prompted SIRA to make the following changes to the released Regulations:
You can find the full list of outcomes from the consultation process on the SIRA website
You can read Osteopathy Australia’s submitted feedback on the Draft Regulations here
Osteopathy Australia Submission to the Australian Commission on the Safety and Quality Healthcare's guide for the Primary & Community Health Care Standards
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