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Previous Approvals Rounds

2005 Aged Care Approvals Round

Results of the 2005 Aged Care Approvals Round

In this section:

Aged Care Boost: Over 11,000 New Places

On 15 December 2005, the former Minister for Ageing, the Hon Julie Bishop MP announced the outcome of the 2005 Aged Care Approvals Round. In this initial announcement almost 11,000 new places were allocated nation wide.

Following further allocations, aged care across Australia will now be increased to over 11,000 new places – to more than 228,000 government-allocated places.

The Australian Government will provide more than $253 million in annual recurrent funding for the 5,227 residential places and 5,874 community places which have been allocated nationally.

The community places include:

4,307 new Community Aged Care Packages to support people in their communities;
900 new Extended Aged Care at Home packages to provide people higher-level care in their own homes; and
667 new Extended Aged Care at Home Dementia packages to help people living with a diagnosis of dementia that contributes to their high care needs remain in their own homes.

Ms Bishop said that in addition to the new places, over $40 million has been made available in capital grants to help the nation’s aged care services build or maintain quality accommodation for older Australians in need of residential care.

A summary of the place and grant allocations are contained in the following Table.

Table 1: Overview of results of the 2005 Aged Care Approvals Round

State or Territory	Residential places	Community places	TOTAL of all places	Recurrent funds ($m)	Capital grants ($m)	TOTAL ($m)	Community Care grants ($m)
NSW	2,056	1,829	3,885	83.84	11.85	93.63	0.655
VIC	868	1,543	2,411	57.71	9.68	67.21	0.294
QLD	1,382	1,188	2,570	60.17	8.10	68.27	0.563
WA	297	582	879	19.06	2.21	21.27	0.047
SA	293	472	765	17.93	1.80	19.72	0.213
TAS	126	135	261	6.27	6.53	12.80	0.029
ACT	185	75	260	6.62	-	6.62	-
NT	20	50	70	2.09	0.50	2.59	-
TOTALS	5,227	5,874	11,101	$253.69m	$40.67m	$294.36m	$1.80m

* Note: These figures do not include a small number of places yet to be allocated.

Residential aged care places and capital grants

National residential aged care place and capital grant allocations (PDF 83 KB)

Community places and community care grants (incorporates Community Aged Care Packages, Extended Aged Care at Home packages and Extended Aged Care at Home Dementia packages)

National community aged care place allocations (PDF 102 KB)

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Further Information

All applicants will receive written notification of the results of their application(s).

Successful applicants will also receive a second written advice from the Department with further details of their approval, including details of the relevant conditions of allocation.

Unsuccessful applicants have the opportunity to obtain feedback from the Department regarding their application(s). In order to obtain this feedback, unsuccessful applicants should contact the appropriate State or Territory office of the Department; the Departmental contact telephone numbers are contained in Table 2.

If you are interested in obtaining feedback in relation to a places application, you are encouraged to contact the Department at the earliest opportunity.

If you have been unsuccessful in obtaining a capital grant allocation, the Department will send a second written advice providing reasons as to why the capital grant application was not successful.

Table 2: State and Territory Office contact details

State or Territory office	Contact telephone number	Freecall Number
New South Wales	(02) 9263 3781	1800 048 998 Ask for extension 3781
Victoria	(03) 9665 8120	1800 822 882 Ask for extension 8120
Queensland	(07) 3360 2668	1800 177 099 Ask for extension 2668
Western Australia	(08) 9346 5226	1800 198 008 Ask for extension 5226
South Australia	(08) 8237 8259	1800 188 098 Ask for extension 8259
Tasmania	(03) 6221 1514	1800 005 119 Ask for extension 1514
Australian Capital Territory	(02) 6289 3377	1800 020 102 Ask for extension 3377
Northern Territory	(08) 8946 3451	1800 019 122 Ask for extension 3451

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Extra Service Status for Residential Aged Care Homes

The complete list of the results of the July 2005 Extra Service Application Round have been placed on the Extra Service web page (link below)

Extra Service Status

Aged Care Planning Region Maps

Approved Provider Application forms

Approved Provider