2022 NDIS Quality Tools

As always, MOA has immediately adapted its suite of tools in response to changes made to the NDIS Practice Standards and best practice guidance, helping you to ensure ongoing compliance and the delivery of the highest quality supports. Our standard audits for December were updated prior

November NZ Rest Home quality tools now online

This month MOA has scheduled the updated 2021 versions of our Living Environment audit and the Waste and Hazardous Materials audit scheduled for our rest homes, ensuring you stay safe and compliant. Additionally, this month we are running our optional Pain Management audit, taking homes

An Analysis of Medication Use and Falls

With the introduction of medication management and falls indicators to the NACMQIP our data scientist, Filip Reierson, investigated the historic data for similar indicators in the MOA QI program. We found evidence that antipsychotic medication use increased the risk of falls in residential aged care

Trends in Medication Use 2016-2021

Our data scientist, Filip Reierson, investigated the prevalence of medication use of services in the MOA QI program by state, acuity level, and time. We found an increase in antidepressant use over the study period, but a modest decrease in the use of other medications. Access

Serious Incident Reporting Module

Many residential aged care providers remain uncertain as to how to accurately classify and report serious incidents to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission. Organisations are also continuing to adjust to the new incident management system requirements and review their approach to complying with

How Quality Standards are covered in MOA

Initially, our content team conducts a thematic mapping exercise, assigning each requirement/sub-standard under the relevant Standards to a specific audit tool(s). At the audit level, these requirements/sub-standards and related guidance material are then used to develop audit questions, with each requirement mapped to individual questions

MOA Advanced Platform Customisation Options

MOA Benchmarking offers a range of advanced options to customise your online platform. Unlock Requests Unlocking a tool after its scheduled completion date requires the approval of a nominated manager.   Locking down of PCI sources and Tags By default, the Source and Tag fields in MOA are customisable by

Keeping up quality in challenging times

The MOA Benchmarking team continues to support our partner providers and the wider sector in managing the COVID-19 threat, particularly as outbreaks of the delta variant continue to spread. A key challenge is keeping up with changes to the requirements and restrictions as the situation