AHHA is a strong advocate for reducing the environmental impact of the health system3,4 , ensuring the health system is climate resilient and prepared to respond to the changing burden of disease resulting from climate change.
Accreditation, as a process of external peer review to assess the performance of healthcare facilities, can play an important role in contributing to continual and systematic quality improvement changes, at a process and sub-system level, within health services.5
As such, AHHA fully supports the development of a Sustainable Healthcare Module (henceforth, the Module) by the ACSQHC to support healthcare services to embed structures and processes focused on improving the outcomes that matter to people, communities and the planet.