MTAA response to the ACSQHC on the Prioritisation of Clinical Quality Registries

MTAA welcomes the opportunity to attend the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) consultation workshop on clinical quality registries to participate in the discussion of the Framework for Australian Clinical Quality Registries.

In relation to clinical quality registries in Australia, MTAA continues to hold the view that well-designed registries can provide postmarket ‘safety and effectiveness data which in turn would enable a less burdensome premarket approval process for high risk implantable devices without compromising the overall safety and wellbeing of patients’.  MTAA recommends that government consider these factors in determining their priorities for future establishment of clinical quality registries and that registries are established based on clinical need and operates in accordance with the principles for Australian Clinical Quality Registries