There are three Primary and Community Healthcare Standards that cover clinical governance, partnering with consumers and clinical safety.

Clinical Governance Standard, where clinical governance is the set of relationships and responsibilities established by a healthcare service to ensure good clinical outcomes.

It ensures that the community and healthcare services can be confident that systems are in place to deliver safe and high-quality health care, and continuously improve services.

Partnering with Consumers Standard, which describes the systems and strategies to create a person-centred healthcare service in which patients and consumers are:

• Included in shared decision-making
• Partners in their own health care
• Involved in the development and design of quality healthcare services.

Clinical Safety Standard, which considers specific high-risk areas of health care commonly encountered that need to be addressed and mitigated.

Source: National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards