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Care minutes and 24/7 registered nurse resources
This page contains links to information and resources about the care minutes and 24/7 registered nurse requirements for registered providers of approved residential care homes.
Care Minutes Performance Statement guidance
These resources for residential aged care providers and their auditors to understand their responsibilities to prepare, audit and submit a Care Minutes Performance Statement.
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Care Minutes Performance Statement – template
Residential aged care providers can use this template to prepare their Care Minutes Performance Statement. This will need to be externally audited before submitting it within the 2025–26 Aged Care Financial Report.
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Quarterly Financial Report (QFR) Residential Care Labour Costs & Hours Reporting Guidance – video
This video focuses on assisting residential aged care providers to accurately report relevant labour costs and hours in the QFR.
Residential aged care financial reporting and care minutes funding update – Questions and answers for 1 May 2025 webinar
Questions and answers from the residential aged care funding reform update webinar held on 1 May 2025.
Residential aged care financial reporting and care minutes funding update – Webinar slides
Slides for the residential aged care financial reporting and care minutes funding update webinar.
Letter to aged care providers from the former Minister for Aged Care about care minutes – 1 October 2024
This is an open letter from the former Minister for Aged Care, Anika Wells, to residential aged care providers about their mandatory care minutes responsibility.
Provider-level care minutes performance (from October 2023)
A dataset for provider-level care minutes performance in residential care for Q1 to Q4 2023–24.
Quarterly Financial Snapshot of the aged care sector – Quarter 2 2023–24 – October to December 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.
Residential aged care 24/7 registered nurse responsibility: reporting, supplement and other information
This webinar provides information to the residential aged care sector on the new 24/7 registered nurse responsibility.
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