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1.A Healthy and Active Australia

Information on healthy eating, regular physical activity and overweight and obesity to assist all Australians to lead healthy and active lives.

2.Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scholarships

This page provides information about scholarships that are available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

3.Additional Education Places, Scholarships and Clinical Training in Mental Health

Provides scholarships and additional tertiary places in mental health nursing and clinical psychology.

4.Aged Care Access Initiative

The Aged Care Access Initiative (ACAI) commenced on 1 July 2008, replacing the Aged Care GP Panels Initiative.

5.Alcohol

Initiatives to minimise the harmful effects of alcohol consumption in Australian society.

6.Arthritis

Arthritis is an inflammatory condition that affects one or more joints.

7.Asthma child and adolescent program

Equips schools and pre-schools in the management of asthma and other respiratory conditions.

8.Asthma cycle of care

Information about what the asthma cycle of care is, who can use it, and how it helps.

9.Asthma management program

Encourages proactive management and facilitates best practice treatment of asthma.

10.Australian General Practice Training program

Offers postgraduate vocational training placements for medical graduates wanting to pursue a career in general practice in Australia.

11.Australian Health Care Agreements

The Australian Health Care Agreements are bilateral five-year agreements between the Australian Government and each state and territory. They are vehicles for the Government to provide significant funding to assist the states and territories to provide free public hospital services to the Australian community.

12.Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program (APCCP)

The aims of the Australian Primary Care Collaboratives Program are to improve clinical health outcomes, reduce lifestyle risk factors, maintain health for chronic and complex conditions and improve access to Australian general practice.

13.Better arthritis and osteoporosis care

An initiative to improve prevention of arthritis and osteoporosis, facilitate early detection and improve management and quality of life for people with these conditions.

14.Bonded Medical Places Scheme

Offers students a greater chance of entry into medical school by providing funding to universities for more than 600 additional commencing medical places each year.

15.Bringing Nurses Back into the Workforce

Provides cash bonuses to eligible nurses 6 months and 18 months after returning to work in a public or private hospital or residential aged care facility.

16.Casemix

Casemix provides the health care industry with a consistent method of classifying types of patients, their treatment and associated costs. It includes developing and implementing casemix classifications, tools and services.

17.Children of Parents with a Mental Illness

Promotes better mental health outcomes for children of parents with a mental illness.

18.Closing the Gap: Tackling Indigenous Chronic Disease Package

The Indigenous Chronic Disease Package aims to achieve a reduction in chronic disease by providing support to the health sector and better access to health care by and for Indigenous Australians.

19.Community support program

Supports effective community management of asthma and linked respiratory conditions, and access to primary care.

20.Continence

Incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine or faeces at an inappropriate time or place (the International Continence Society (ICS), 2005).

21.Ear and Hearing Training initiative for Aboriginal Health Workers

This measure involves the development and provision of nationally accredited ear and hearing training to Aboriginal Health Workers that will lead to the expansion of ear and hearing services and improvement of education and employment outcomes for Indigenous Australians.

22.Early Intervention Services for Parents, Children and Young People

Supports early intervention for children and young people who are at highest risk of developing mental health problems, or who are showing early behavioural signs or symptoms of mental health problems.

23.Encouraging Better Practice in Aged Care

The Encouraging Best Practice in Residential Aged Care (EBPRAC) program commenced in 2007 with the aim of identifying and developing sustainable strategies to encourage residential aged care facilities to implement existing evidence-based best practice guidelines. EBPRAC supported the uptake of evidence-based guidelines by funding organisations to translate the best available evidence into effective approaches for staff to use in their everyday practice.

24.Enhanced Primary Care Program overview

25.Framework convention on tobacco control

A World Health Organization treaty to address the health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption worldwide.

26.Funding for Telephone Counselling, Self Help and Web-based Support Programs

Provides increased funding to non-government organisations for telephone and web based services, and expanded and enhanced on-line interactive tools.

27.General Practice After Hours Program

This section of the website contains information on Australian Government competitive grant funding for after hours GP services under the General Practice After Hours (GPAH) Program.

28.GP and allied health professional asthma and respiratory education program

Provides best-practice asthma management education nationally to primary health care practitioners.

29.headspace (National Youth Mental Health Foundation)

Delivers improvements in the mental health, social wellbeing and economic participation of young Australians aged 12-25.

30.Immunisation

An Australian, State and Territory Government initiative, the Immunise Australia Program aims to increase national immunisation rates.

31.Injury Prevention

Injury Prevention and Control was endorsed as a National Priority Area by the Australian Health Ministers in 1986 in recognition of the national burden of injury.

32.John Flynn Placement Program

Covers costs, for medical students, of short-term placements in rural areas.

33.Joint Expert Technical Advisory Committee on Antibiotic Resistance (JETACAR)

AHMC JETACAR Taskforce was disbanded in 2002

34.KidsMatter

A mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention initiative for children.

35.Lifescripts

Provides general practice with evidence-based tools and skills to help patients address the main lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease (smoking, poor nutrition, alcohol misuse, physical inactivity and unhealthy weight).

36.Lifetime Health Cover

Lifetime Health Cover is a Government initiative that started on 1 July 2000. It was designed to encourage people to take out hospital insurance earlier in life, and to maintain their cover.

37.Maternity services reforms

Welcome to the maternity services information page. This page provides information on the Australian Government’s maternity services reforms, in particular the changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) for pregnant women, or those planning pregnancy, and for health care professionals.

38.Medical Benefits Reviews Task Group

The Australian Government announced in the 2009-10 Budget that it would fund the development of a new evidence-based framework for managing the MBS into the future (the MBS Quality Framework) and carry out parallel reviews of Diagnostic Imaging and Pathology.

39.Medical Indemnity

This section of the site contains information relating to medical indemnity programs.

40.Medical Rural Bonded Scholarship Scheme

Scholarships for students who agree to practise in rural or remote areas of Australia upon completion of basic medical and postgraduate training.

41.Mental Health Council of Australia

The peak national non-government organisation representing and promoting the interests of the Australian mental health sector.

42.Mental Health in Tertiary Curricula

Improves training programs for health professionals by expanding the mental health components of undergraduate health training.

43.Mental Health Nurse Incentive Program

Provides a non-MBS incentive payment to organisations which engage mental health nurses to assist in the provision of coordinated clinical care for people with severe mental disorders.

44.Mental Health Services in Rural and Remote Areas

Provides allied and nursing mental health services in rural and remote communities throughout Australia.

45.Mindframe National Media Initiative

Provides information about suicide and mental illness and the portrayal of these issues in the news media and on stage and screen in Australia.

46.Mindmatters

A resource and professional development program to support Australian secondary schools in promoting and protecting the social and emotional wellbeing of members of school communities.

47.Multicultural Mental Health Australia

Provides national leadership in building awareness of mental health and suicide prevention amongst Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

48.National Indigenous Health Workforce Training Package

The package contributes to mentoring, supporting and encouraging Indigenous doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and Aboriginal health Workers to work in health. It also promotes a national approach to education, training and up-skilling of Aboriginal Health Workers directly aimed at increasing Indigenous health workforce capacity.

49.National Male and Women's Health

The Government has committed to developing National Male and Women's Health Policies, to ensure that specific health needs of both men and women are addressed.

50.National Male Health Policy

The Government has developed a new National Male Health Policy, the first for Australia.

51.National Psychostimulants Initiative

The National Psychostimulants Initiative (NPI) aimed to reduce harms and prevent harms associated with psychostimulant use in the Australian community.

52.National Rural Health Students' Network

Represents Rural Health Clubs, whose members are medical, nursing and allied health students at universities throughout Australia

53.National Suicide Prevention Strategy

Promotes suicide prevention activities across the Australian population, as well as for specific at-risk groups.

54.National tobacco strategy

A policy framework for the Australian Government and state and territory governments to work together and in collaboration with non-government agencies to improve health and to reduce the social costs caused by tobacco.

55.National Women's Health Policy

The Government’s National Women’s Health Policy 2010 aims to continue to improve the health and wellbeing of all women in Australia, especially those at greatest risk for poor health.

56.National Youth Mental Health Foundation (headspace)

Known as headspace, the foundation delivers improvements in the mental health, social wellbeing and economic participation of young Australians aged 12-25.

57.Needle and Syringe Program

The Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) supports increased education, counselling and referral services provided through community based programs; and diversification of NSPs to increase accessibility through pharmacies and other outlets and provide information and training support.

58.Non-Directive Pregnancy Counselling

The Non-Directive Pregnancy Support Counselling MBS Items and the Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Helpline support women, their partners and families in making informed decisions about pregnancy-related issues.

59.Nurse Scholarship Program

Offers incentives to individuals wishing to pursue or build on a career in rural or remote area nursing and to nurses wishing to re-enter the nursing workforce anywhere in Australia.

60.Nursing and Allied Health Rural Locum Scheme

This program is a component of the Australian Government's health reform agenda.

61.Nursing and Allied Health Scholarship and Support Scheme (NAHSSS)

The 2009-10 budget will consolidate a number of scholarship programs into one scheme, the Nursing and Allied Health Scholarship Scheme (NAHSSS).

62.Nursing in General Practice

Encourages general practice to employ more practice nurses.

63.Organ and Tissue Donation

This section of the website provides an overview of the information on organ and tissue donation and links to further information.

64.Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a disease where bone density and structural quality deteriorate, leading to an increased risk of fracture.

65.Overview of the Commonwealth Qualified Privilege Scheme

The Commonwealth Qualified Privilege Scheme encourages health professionals to undertake quality assurance activities in connection with the provision of certain health services.

66.Overview of the Divisions of General Practice Program

The purpose of the Divisions of General Practice Program (the Divisions Program) is to provide services and support to general practice at the local level, through Divisions of General Practice, to achieve health outcomes for the community that would not otherwise be achieved on an individual GP basis.

67.Pituitary hormones initiatives

This page contains information on the relation between human pituitary hormone treatment and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) as well as Government's initiatives for the control and prevention of CJD.

68.Plasma Fractionation Review

Australia’s plasma fractionation arrangements were reviewed in 2006, in line with commitments under the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA). The purpose of the review was to provide governments with a solid basis to make an informed decision on future arrangements. Further information about the review can be accessed from this page.

69.Prevention of type 2 diabetes program

A program to help delay or possibly prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes by targeting the associated risk factors.

70.Prevocational General Practice Placements Program

Encourages junior doctors to take up general practice as a career by funding placements in outer metropolitan, regional, rural and remote areas, and other areas of medical service need.

71.Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme

Provides financial assistance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to undertake undergraduate health professional training.

72.Regional Cancer Centres

Funding to build a national network of high quality treatment centres and encourage flexible models for regional cancer centres that will provide appropriate support and optimal treatment to benefit the maximum number of cancer patients through every stage of their patient journey.

73.Registrars Rural Incentive Payments Scheme

Provides financial incentives for general practice registrars who undertake the majority of their general practice training in rural and remote locations.

74.Remote Vocational Training Scheme

Provides distance education and supervision for medical practitioners without postgraduate qualifications in remote communities.

75.ResponseAbility Education

Provides information to support use of the Response Ability multi-media packages in Australian universities and tertiary colleges, in the fields of education and journalism.

76.Review of Funding for Diagnostic Imaging Services - Submissions

A list of submissions received for the review of funding for diagnostic imaging services in response to the January 2010 discussion paper.

77.Review of Funding of Diagnostic Imaging

The Government has requested a detailed review of funding arrangements for diagnostic imaging, to ensure that the Government is paying the right amount in the right way to support access for patients to quality diagnostic imaging services.

78.Review of Funding of Pathology - Submissions to Final Discussion Paper

A list of submissions received for the review of funding of pathology services Final Discussion Paper.

79.Review of Funding of Pathology - Submissions

A list of submissions received for the review of funding of pathology services first Discussion Paper.

80.Review of Funding of Pathology Services

The Government requested a detailed review of funding arrangements for pathology, to ensure that the Government is paying the right amount to support access for patients to quality pathology services.

81.Round the Clock Medicare: Investing in After Hours GP Services Program and General Practice After Hours Program.

The new after hours grants program, the Australian Government's new General Practice After Hours program, replaces the former Round the Clock Medicare: Investing in After Hours GP Services Program.

82.Rural Australia Medical Undergraduate Scholarship

Scholarships to assist students from rural and remote areas with accommodation, living and travel costs incurred while studying medicine.

83.Rural Clinical Schools

Funds a network of rural clinical schools to enable students to undertake extended clinical training placements in rural locations.

84.Rural Health Continuing Education Sub-program

This sub-progam consolidates funding from a number of other programs into a single program to support medical specialists in rural and remote areas.

85.Rural Health Education Foundation

Provides television-based health education for doctors, pharmacists, nurses and allied health professionals in rural and remote areas.

86.Rural Health Support, Education and Training

Funds initiatives to recruit and retain rural health workers by providing them with appropriate support, education and training.

87.Rural Pharmacy Scholarship Scheme

Scholarships to assist students from rural and remote areas to undertake undergraduate or graduate studies in pharmacy at university.

88.Rural Pharmacy Workforce Program

Comprises various initiatives, including undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships and an emergency locum scheme, designed to recruit, train and retain pharmacists in rural and remote areas.

89.Rural Undergraduate Support and Coordination

Funds Australian medical schools to promote the selection of rural applicants, develop support systems for students with an interest in rural medicine, and provide short-term rural placements for medical students.

90.Rural Women's GP Service

Information about the Rural Women's GP Service (RWGPS).

91.Sharing Health Care Initiative

The Sharing Health Care Initiative (SHCI) is designed to improve the health related quality of life for people with chronic diseases, to encourage people to use the health care system more effectively and to enhance collaboration between individuals and their families, carers and health care professionals in the management of chronic disease.

92.Structural Reform of the RANZCP Fellowship Training Program

Provides funding to support the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in the development of a flexible, more transparent Fellowship training program

93.The Australian Government Hearing Services Program

This page provides information about the Office of Hearing Services and its function in running The Australian Government Hearing Services Program.

94.The Food Regulation Secretariat

95.Tobacco

Policy and programs to improve the health of all Australians by eliminating or reducing their exposure to tobacco in all its forms.

96.University Departments of Rural Health

Funding for universities to provide opportunities for students to practise their clinical skills in a rural environment.

97.Visiting Optometrists Scheme

The Visiting Optometrists Scheme (VOS) aims to improve the access of people living and working in rural and remote communities to optometry services. This is achieved by addressing some of the financial disincentives incurred by participating optometrists providing outreach services.

98.Welcome

Welcome to the Australian Government’s GP Super Clinics Program.

99.The Food Regulation System

100.Working in aged care - Programs

Australian Government programs supporting individuals in the Aged Care Workforce

101.Round 3 Reporting Templates and Associated Guide 2010-11

Guide to Completing Project Progress Reports for GPAH Round 3 (2010-11)

102.The Food Regulation Secretariat – Database Registration

103.2007-08 GP Super Clinic Commitments

104.National Women’s Health Policy: Consultation Submissions

Information on Consultation Submissions

105.Newsletters of the Food Regulation Secretariat

106.2010-11 GP Super Clinic Commitments

Funding arrangements for the GP Super Clinic program

107.Chronic Disease Dental Scheme

Medicare dental items (Medicare items 85011-87777) are available for people with chronic conditions and complex care needs, on referral from a GP. Eligible patients can access up to $4,250 in Medicare benefits for dental services over two consecutive calendar years.

108.Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy (2011)

109.Round 1 Reporting Templates and Associated Guide - 2008-09

Guide to Completing Project Progress Reports for GPAH Round 1 (2008-09)

110.The Food Regulation Secretariat – Related Sites

111.Elective Surgery Waiting List Reduction Plan

Welcome to the Department of Health and Ageing's Elective Surgery Waiting List Reduction Plan information site.

112.Medical Treatment Overseas Program
Financial Assistance to Australian Residents Medical Treatment Overseas

The Medical Treatment Overseas (MTO) Program provides financial assistance for Australians with a life-threatening medical condition to receive proven life saving medical treatment overseas where effective treatment is not available in Australia.

113.Overview of the Commonwealth Indigenous Chronic Disease Package

This page contains an overview of the Commonwealth Indigenous Chronic Disease Package.

114.Report of the Maternity Services Review

115.Aged Care Education and Training Incentive Program

The Aged Care Education and Training Incentive (ACETI) program provides incentive payments to eligible aged care workers who undertake specified education and training programs.

116.Better Access to Psychiatrists, Psychologists and General Practitioners through the MBS (Better Access) initiative

The Better Access initiative provides better access to mental health practitioners through Medicare.

117.Better Oral Health in Residential Care training

The Better Oral Health in Residential Care Training project commenced in December 2009 and was rolled out to residential aged care homes nationally. The training aimed to provide an increased awareness of oral hygiene issues for the staff in daily contact with residents.

118.Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care

The Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care (BOiMHC) program improves community access to quality primary mental health care.

119.beyondblue - the National Depression Initiative

beyondblue is working with a range of partners including governments, schools and community organisations, as well as people living with depression, to progress the National Depression Initiative.

120.Day Therapy Centres Overview

Day Therapy Centres offer physiotherapy, occupational and speech therapy, podiatry and other therapy services to older people in a community setting.

121.eheadspace

A pilot service enabling young people in part of WA to chat or email qualified youth mental health professionals.

122.Electronic Prescribing and Dispensing of Medicines

Electronic prescribing and dispensing of medicines is a key eHealth initiative aimed at improving the delivery and quality of health care and achieving better health outcomes

123.Emergency Triage Education Kit

The Emergency Triage Education Kit (ETEK) provides a nationally consistent approach to the educational preparation of emergency clinicians for the triage role, and promotes the consistent application of the Australasian Triage Scale (ATS).

124.Environmental Health

Environmental health involves those aspects of public health concerned with the factors, circumstances, and conditions in the environment or surroundings of humans that can exert an influence on health and well-being.

125.Getting assistance from an SDAP Panel Member

Five step guide for assistance through SDAP

126.Guidelines for Applicants

Guidelines for Applicants - Financial Assistance to Australian Residents Requiring Medical Treatment Overseas

127.Guidelines for Participating Optometrists

These guidelines should be read prior to completing the Application Form Provision of Outreach Optometric Services under the Visiting Optometrists Scheme (VOS) July 2011.

128.Healthcare Identifiers and Privacy - Submissions

This page contains submissions received from the public consultation on legislative proposals for Healthcare Identifiers and Privacy.

129.History of key MBS primary care initiatives 1999-2010

A significant number of Medicare initiatives have been introduced over the last ten years aimed at increasing support for the range of options available to GPs for the provision of quality comprehensive primary care to Australians.

130.Increased Clinial Training Capacity (ICTC) program

The ICTC Program will provide approximately 7,500 additional student placements during 2010 and 2011 and include training in chiropractic, dentistry, medicine, nursing and midwifery, optometry, osteopathy, pharmacy, physiotherapy, podiatry and psychology.

131.Indemnity insurance - protection for midwives Fact Sheet

More choice for women - Indemnity insurance for midwives

132.Information for women and their families Fact Sheet

More choice for women - more information about maternity

133.Maternity Reform Legislation Fact Sheet

New legislative arrangements for midwives and nurse practitioners.

134.Maternity Services Advisory Group

The Maternity Services Advisory Group (the Advisory Group) provides advice to the Department in relation to maternity services reform.

135.Maternity Services Review - Overview

Welcome to the Maternity Services Review page.

136.Maternity services skills boosted for regional Australia Fact Sheet

More choice for women - Regional maternity workforce boost

137.Medicare support for midwives Fact Sheet

MBS and PBS access

138.Medicare Teen Dental Plan

The Medicare Teen Dental Plan provides financial assistance to families to help keep their teenagers’ teeth in good health and encourage them to continue to look after their teeth once they become independent. The program commenced on 1 July 2008

139.Mental Health Services in Rural and Remote Areas program

The Mental Health Services in Rural and Remote Areas program provides allied and nursing mental health services, including those provided by social workers, psychologists, mental health nurses, occupational therapists, Aboriginal health workers, and Aboriginal mental health workers in rural and remote communities throughout Australia.

140.Mental Health Support for Drought Affected Communities

The Mental Health Support for Drought Affected Communities initiative builds the capacity of rural and remote drought affected communities to respond to the psychological impact of drought.

141.Multicultural Mental Health Project

The Department of Health and Ageing is committed to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) mental health consumers, their families and carers, including through the Multicultural Mental Health Project. Most Australians will be directly or indirectly touched by the impact of mental illness at some point in their lives and for people of culturally diverse backgrounds this can involve many extra challenges.

142.Multidisciplinary Case Conference Medicare Items for GPs

This fact sheet must be read in conjunction with the item descriptors and explanatory notes for items 735-758 (as set out in the Medicare Benefits Schedule).

143.National Eating Disorders Collaboration

The National Eating Disorders Collaboration brings together eating disorder stakeholders and experts in mental health, public health, health promotion, education, and research, as well as the media to help develop a nationally consistent approach to the prevention and management of eating disorders.

144.National Epidermolysis Bullosa Dressing Scheme

Summary for National Epidermolysis Bullosa Dressing Scheme

145.National External Breast Prostheses Reimbursement Program

Information on the Program and how to claim a reimbursement.

146.National Indigenous Cadetship Program

This page provides information about the National Indigenous Cadetship Program (NICP), which provides assistance and work placement opportunities to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

147.National Mental Health Seclusion and Restraint Project

The National Mental Health Seclusion and Restraint Project (NMHSRP) aims to reduce and, where possible, eliminate seclusion and restraint in public mental health services.

148.National mental health strategy

The National mental health strategy is a commitment by Australian governments to improve the lives of people with a mental illness.

149.National Outcomes and Casemix Collection

The National Outcomes and Casemix Collection (NOCC) will enable the further development of outcomes and casemix concepts in mental health.

150.National Perinatal Depression Initiative

The National Perinatal Depression Initiative aims to improve prevention and early detection of antenatal and postnatal depression and provide better support and treatment for expectant and new mothers experiencing depression. This initiative benefits women who are at risk of or experiencing depression during pregnancy or in the first year following childbirth.

151.National Priority Locations

The national priority locations have been determined by the Department of Health and Ageing in consultation with relevant stakeholders, including Optometrists Association Australia, Vision 2020 and the relevant State and Northern Territory governments.

152.National Rural and Remote Health Infrastructure Program

This page provides information on The National Rural and Remote Health Infrastructure Program (NRRHIP)

153.Non Government Organisation Treatment Grants Program

Information about the Non Government Organisation Treatment Grants Program funding round for drug and alcohol treatment services.

154.Outreach services – to rural and remote communities Fact Sheet

More choice for women - outreach to communities

155.Petrol Sniffing Prevention Program

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156.Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) Growth Hormone Program

This page contains the following downloadable PDF documents:

157.Pituitary Hormone Initiatives

This page contains information on the relation between human pituitary hormone treatment and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) as well as Government's initiatives for the control and prevention of CJD.

158.Primary Health Strategy

The Hon. Nicola Roxon MP, Minister for Health and Ageing, announced on 11 June 2008 that the Rudd Government will develop a National Primary Health Care Strategy to better tackle the health challenges of the 21st century, and make sure that families can get the health care they need.

159.Program of Assistance for Survivors of Torture and Trauma

The Program of Assistance for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (PASTT) provides specialised support services to people who are experiencing psychological or psychosocial difficulties associated with surviving torture and trauma before coming to Australia.

160.Quality Assurance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medical Services (QAAMS)

The QAAMS program uses Point of Care Testing (PoCT) technology to conduct pathology tests on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with diabetes.

161.Quality Use of Pathology Program (QUPP)

The goal of the Quality Use of Pathology Program is to achieve improvement in health and economic outcomes from the use of pathology in health care, through the pursuit of better practice amongst requesters/referrers and providers of pathology services and knowledgeable and engaged consumers.

162.Questions and Answers: Midwife professional indemnity insurance

This page provides information about professional indemnity insurance for midwives.

163.Remuneration and claims system for approved pharmacists and approved hospital authorities supplying under the Remote Aboriginal Health Program under section 100 of the National Health Act 1953 (the Act):

164.Review of the National Rural Locum Program - Final Report

165.Revised legislative proposals for Healthcare Identifiers - Submissions

This page contains submissions received from the public consultation on the revised legislative proposals for healthcare identifiers, including the release of an exposure draft of the Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010.

166.Rural Primary Health Services Program

The Rural Primary Health Services (RPHS) program aim to improve access to a range of primary and allied health care services and activities for rural and remote communities. The RPHS program gives community-based primary health care services greater flexibility in the range of services they can offer, including health promotion and preventative health activities.

167.Service Development Assistance Panel - FAQ

List of FAQs for the Service Development Assistance Panel - SDAP

168.Service Development Assistance Panel (SDAP) - Information and Forms

The Remote & Indigenous Support Section provides assistance, input and support for the SDAP

169.Service Development Assistance Panel Program Glossary

SDAP panel glossary

170.The Australian Government's National Palliative Care Program

The National Palliative Care Program aims to improve access to and quality of palliative care.

171.The Practice Nurse Incentive Program

The Practice Nurse Incentive Program (PNIP) commenced on 1 January 2012.

172.The Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development (PHCRED) Strategy

The Strategy builds and communicates an evidence base to support decision making around primary health care, focussed on the priority areas of the National Primary Health Care Strategy.

173.Support for Day to Day Living in the Community

The Support for Day to Day Living in the Community (D2DL) program provides funding to improve the quality of life for individuals with severe and persistent mental illness by providing an additional 7,000 places in structured and socially based activity programs. The initiative recognises that meaningful activity and social connectedness are important factors that can contribute to people's recovery.

174.Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS)

ATAPS enables GPs under the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care (BOiMHC) program to refer consumers to allied health professionals who deliver focussed psychological strategies.

175.GP Psych Support

GP Psych Support provides GPs with patient management advice from psychiatrists within 24 hours.