More protection for patients under new national standards
Facilities providing cosmetic surgery will now be required to meet a new, higher standards intended to improve patient safety. Any service offering cosmetic surgery will have to abide by the rules from small clinics conducting day procedures to large hospitals. It will be enforced by the Australian Commission on safety and quality in health care.
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00:00 The states and territories will be introducing licensing of facilities so they will be able
00:08 to apply penalties if a facility doesn't meet that license.
00:14 There will be an accreditation process so all of these facilities will actually need
00:18 to meet these standards and then be accredited towards that.
00:23 Although the standards come out today, there will be a period of time where facilities
00:29 have to actually get themselves up to the standards.
00:32 So the accreditation process may not begin until 2025 but they all know what they're
00:37 meant to do as of today.
00:39 I think right from today they know exactly what's expected.
00:44 The Medical Board also has a series of requirements of clinicians and they will need to meet those
00:51 immediately as well.
00:53 So I think it's as good as we can do, I don't think you can expect a facility to magically
01:00 transform the minute they find out what's required of them.
01:03 But if they're not taking steps then they won't meet the accreditation standards.
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