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Care minutes and 24/7 registered nurse responsibility resources
This page contains links to information and resources about care minutes and 24/7 registered nurse responsibilities for approved providers of residential aged care services.
Latest resources
Resources
Residential aged care funding reform update – Questions and answers
Fact sheet
Questions and answers from the residential aged care funding reform update webinar held on 18 September 2024.
Care time reporting assessments – Information for providers
Fact sheet
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.
Care minutes in aged care homes
Fact sheet
This fact sheet helps older persons, their families and carers understand the care minutes requirement for residential aged care.
Care minutes and 24/7 registered nurse responsibilities – guides for residential aged care providers
Guideline
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.
Provider-level care minutes performance (from October 2023)
Dataset
A dataset for provider-level care minutes performance in residential care for Q1 to Q4 2023–24.
Letter to aged care providers from the Minister for Aged Care about care minutes – 1 October 2024
Letter
This is an open letter from the Minister for Aged Care, Anika Wells, to residential aged care providers about their mandatory care minutes responsibility.
Service-level care minutes performance in residential aged care (from October 2023)
Dataset
This document provides information on service-level care minutes performance in residential aged care.
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Residential aged care funding reform update – Webinar recording
Presentation
This webinar gave the residential aged care sector an update on funding, the care minutes responsibility, the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility, and care time reporting.
Care minutes targets in residential aged care by service (financial year 2024–25)
Dataset
This document provides information on service-level care minutes targets in residential aged care for financial year 2024-25.
Care minutes target calculator
Procedure
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 – Residential Care Labour Costs and Hours reporting – Frequently Asked Questions
Fact sheet
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.
24/7 RN coverage tool
Dataset
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.
Care minutes in residential aged care dashboard
Infographic
This dashboard provides users with high level information on care minutes in residential aged care.
Frequently Asked Questions – 24/7 registered nurse responsibility
Fact sheet
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.
Quarterly Financial Snapshot of the aged care sector – Quarter 2 2023–24 – October to December 2023
Report
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.
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24/7 registered nurse reporting – training video
Presentation
This training video for residential aged care providers explains how to report on the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility.
Care time reporting assessments – model pack
Procedure
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.
Privacy notice – Change of circumstances for exemptions to the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility
Guideline
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.
24/7 registered nurse responsibility exemption change of circumstances form
Form
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.
Letter from Minister for Aged Care the Hon. Anika Wells on care minutes compliance
Letter
Letter from Minister for Aged Care the Hon. Anika Wells to Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner Janet Anderson about care minutes compliance.
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Exemption from the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility – how to apply
Presentation
Information for eligible providers about how to complete the application form for an exemption from the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility.
24/7 registered nurse responsibility exemption application form
Form
This form should be used by approved providers of eligible residential facilities to apply for an exemption from the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility.
Residential aged care funding reform update – Webinar
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Webinar
This webinar gave the residential aged care sector an update on funding, the care minutes responsibility, the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility, and care time reporting.
Residential aged care 24/7 registered nurse responsibility: reporting, supplement and other information
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Webinar
This webinar provides information to the residential aged care sector on the new 24/7 registered nurse responsibility.
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