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4 June 2025 - The Australian Government reduces the subsidy to residential aged care providers in certain cases. Providers won’t receive the total subsidy if the resident pays some types of fees or gets extra services.

16 April 2025 - Vaccination is a safe and effective way to protect yourself and your baby from RSV.

11 April 2025 - Vaccination is a safe and effective way to protect yourself and your baby from whooping cough.

4 June 2025 - As an approved provider, you must give an itemised monthly statement to each of your care recipients to show their available funds, how the funds are being spent and the amount of unspent funds. This is outlined in legislation. Find out what to include in a monthly statement and when to provide it.

5 May 2025 - The Australian Government continues to support a thriving community pharmacy sector.

4 June 2025 - You cannot use Home Care Packages to fund services and items that everyone – regardless of age – needs and pays for with general income. See what services are excluded and how to advise care recipients.

15 June 2025 - The AGPT Program is a way to become a general practitioner (GP) in Australia. Registrars who complete the program can work unsupervised as a GP anywhere in the country. We fund 1,500 training places every year. Australia’s GP colleges deliver this program for us.

20 May 2025 - You have the right to access documents we hold under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act). This page explains how to make an FOI request and how we process FOI requests. It also includes a link to our disclosure log.

4 June 2025 - As an approved provider, you must have ongoing discussions with your care recipients about their care needs and goals. Find out what to discuss, and when, and how to review and update care plans, Home Care Agreements, and individualised budgets.

21 May 2025 - General patients with a 60-day prescription for a PBS medicine may save up to $189.60 a year per medicine.