Care minutes and 24/7 registered nurses in residential aged care resources

This fact sheets aims to support residential aged care providers and their understanding when it comes to a care time reporting assessments. It contains useful information, resources and contacts.

These guides provide information about the mandatory care minutes and 24/7 registered nurse responsibilities. Learn more about each responsibility, including delivery of care minutes and registered nurse coverage and reporting obligations.

This fact sheet helps older persons, their families and carers understand the care minutes requirement for residential aged care.

This document provides information on service-level care minutes performance in residential aged care.

This is an open letter from the Minister for Aged Care, Anika Wells, to residential aged care providers about their mandatory care minutes responsibility.

A dataset for provider-level care minutes performance in residential care for Q1 to Q4 2023–24.

This document provides information on service-level care minutes targets in residential aged care for financial year 2024-25.

Residential aged care providers must calculate and deliver care minutes targets for their services. This tool can help providers perform this calculation.

Quarterly Financial Report frequently asked questions for residential aged care providers to use as a guide when collating their labour costs and hours financial information.

This Excel document aims to help aged care providers identify gaps in 24/7 RN coverage. It contains instructions on how to calculate gaps in coverage for the reported month.

This dashboard provides users with high level information on care minutes in residential aged care.

This document contains Frequently Asked Questions about the 24/7 registered nurse (RN) responsibility, including answers to questions from webinars hosted by the Department of Health and Aged Care on 15 March, 12 April and 1 June 2023 and the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission on 18 April 2023.

This snapshot provides information on the financial performance of the Australian aged care sector from 1 October to 31 December 2023. It includes analysis of residential care and home care.

This Excel document aims to help guide aged care providers when submitting information and documents for a care time reporting assessment. It contains examples of calculations and workings for information and documents commonly requested.

This form should be used by approved providers of residential facilities with an exemption from the 24/7 RN responsibility to notify the Department of any material changes to the alternative clinical care arrangements they have in place.

This privacy notice explains why we collect information in the notification of a change of circumstance for exemptions from the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility.

Letter from Minister for Aged Care the Hon. Anika Wells to Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner Janet Anderson about care minutes compliance.

This form should be used by approved providers of eligible residential facilities to apply for an exemption from the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility.