Australia National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards Second Edition 8.10-8.13: Response processes ensure timely attendance by clinicians skilled to manage acute deterioration, rapid access at all times to a clinician who can deliver advanced life support on site or nearby, rapid referral to mental health services for acute deterioration in mental state, and rapid referral to services that can provide definitive management of acute physical deterioration

Response arrangements must bring clinicians with the right skills to a deteriorating patient promptly, guarantee round-the-clock access to someone on site or close by who can give advanced life support, secure fast referral to mental health services when mental state deteriorates acutely, and secure fast referral to services able to give definitive treatment for acute physical deterioration.