Better health and ageing for all Australians

Program

Better HealthCare Connections: Aged Care Multidisciplinary Care Coordination and Advisory Service Program

Better HealthCare Connections: Aged Care Multidisciplinary Care Coordination and Advisory Service Program (the Program) is a new program under the Living Longer Living Better aged care reform package.

Invitation to Apply for Funding
Program Overview
Objectives of the Program
Who is eligible?
Evaluation
Contact Information

Invitation to Apply for Funding

The Department has released an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for funding under the Program. The ITA will close at 5:00 pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time on 21 December 2012.

The Invitation to Apply for funding and the Grant Program Guidelines, containing essential information about the funding available, who can apply, considerations and requirements when applying for funding, and how applications will be released, are available on the tenders and grants page.

Please visit the Tenders and Grants page to download Program Documentation.

Please note you will be required to complete a form before being able to download the invitation to apply documentation.
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Program Overview

Better HealthCare Connections: Aged Care Multidisciplinary Care Coordination and Advisory Service Program (the Program) is a new program under the Living Longer Living Better aged care reform package.

The Better Health Care Connections: Aged Care Multidisciplinary Care Coordination and Advisory Service Program will provide $9.969 million over five years to support older Australians with complex health needs who would benefit from increased access to multidisciplinary teams of health professional to coordinate care and treatment. The Program also includes an innovative pilot of GP consultations via video conferencing to Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs).

Objectives of the Program

The Program’s objectives are to:
  • Promote the expanded use of in-reach services to RACFs.
  • Promote the development of regionally or locally-based visiting multi-disciplinary health care teams.
  • Develop better links with the health system in both the community and residential settings.
  • Promote multidisciplinary care for aged care recipients.
  • Create linkages that assist specialists, general practitioners, allied health professionals and aged care providers to deliver multidisciplinary care, utilising relevant Medicare Benefit Scheme (MBS) items, incentives and local resources.
  • Develop a business case on the appropriateness and potential impacts of telehealth as a way of delivering better access to GP services in residential aged care.

Who is Eligible?

To be eligible for grant funding the applicants must be a Medicare local and/or an existing approved provider of residential community aged care services.

Evaluation

A procurement process will be undertaken in year 4, to evaluate the Program. The evaluation will cover both the trial of the aged care coordination and advisory services and the pilot of GP video consultations.

The evaluation will consider the extent to which the program objectives have been met and outcomes realised. The evaluation will also consider the clinical efficacy of telehealth delivery of GP services and an assessment of the overall benefits to residents of participating RACFs.

Contact Information

Queries regarding this Program can be directed by email to Multidisciplinary Care.
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