Resources
Webinar 7: Designing culturally safe aged care – Webinar slides
This webinar is for people working in aged care and design. Learn about a new complementary resource to the Principles and Guidelines, culturally safe design, and collaborating with community. Discover how to create culturally safe aged care homes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Care minutes supplement – frequently asked questions
This resource provides answers to some frequently asked questions about the care minutes supplement for non-specialised metropolitan residential care homes.
Residential aged care influenza vaccination rates – 20 May 2026
This table provides influenza vaccination rates of aged care residents by facility across Australia using data from the Australian Immunisation Register.
Voluntary Monthly Care Statements guide
This document guides aged care providers on how to provide Monthly Care Statements to their residents.
Webinar 6: Principle 4 – Connect with community – Webinar slides
These webinar slides are for people working in aged care and design. Learn how environments can help older people maintain meaningful connections.
Residential aged care residents COVID-19 vaccination rates data – May 2026
COVID-19 vaccination rates in residential aged care
Approved providers with an exemption from the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility
This webpage lists approved providers with an exemption from the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility in residential aged care.
Initial Government response to the Accommodation Pricing Review – Frequently asked questions
This resource outlines the Australian Government’s initial response to the Accommodation Pricing Review and provides answers to frequently asked questions regarding implementation details.
Aged Care Act 2024 – Wait Times Report
This report presents median and average measures of the time elapsed between application through My Aged Care to commencement of aged care services for the 1 November 2025 – 31 March 2026 (Quarter 2 and Quarter 3 of 2025-26) reporting period.
Webinar 4: Cultivate a home – Questions and answers
This document provides answers to the questions raised during the Cultivate a home webinar held on 16 April 2026.
Principle 3 - Access the Outdoors: National Aged Care Design and Guidelines Webinar Series: Home Matters - Rethinking Aged Care Design
This webinar is for people working in aged care and design. Learn about the importance of spending time outdoors for older people living in aged care.
Registered nurse coverage in residential aged care dashboard
This dashboard provides users with high level information on 24/7 registered nurse coverage in residential aged care.
Independent Review of Residential Aged Care Accommodation Pricing
The document reviews aged care accommodation pricing, including government support, resident payments, and recent reforms to balance resident protection and provider sustainability.
QI Program file upload template
This template is for uploading QI Program data through the Government Provider Management System (GPMS) Registered Provider Portal for multiple homes at a time using the bulk upload functionality. Commercial benchmarking organisations can use them to submit QI Program data on behalf of clients.
Principle 2 – Cultivate a home
This webinar is for people working in aged care and design. Learn about designing ‘households’ and spaces that feel homely and support privacy, control and belonging.
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Reporting offline beds
Instructional video for residential aged care providers to report offline beds.
Webinar 3: Enable the person – Questions and answers
This document provides answers to the questions raised during the Enable the person webinar held on 31 March 2026.
Residential aged care funding assessments dashboard
This dashboard provides users with information on the progress of residential aged care funding assessments.
Electronic National Residential Medication Charts (eNRMC) – Conformance status tracker
The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing and the Australian Digital Health Agency (Agency) are working with eNRMC software vendors to ensure conformant eNRMC systems with electronic prescribing capability are available during October 2025.
Home-level care minutes performance in residential aged care
This provides information on care minutes performance for residential care homes by financial years. From 1 April 2026, quarterly performance will be used to calculate the care minutes supplement for non-specialised metropolitan homes.
Schedule of Subsidies and Supplements for Residential and Transition Care
The schedule lists the daily rates of subsidies and supplements for government-funded residential and transition care under the new Aged Care Act 2024, which commenced 1 November 2025.
24/7 registered nurse obligation exemption application form
This form should be used by registered providers of eligible residential care homes to apply for an exemption from the 24/7 registered nurse requirement.
Principle 1 – Enable the person: National Aged Care Design Principles and Guidelines
This webinar is for people working in aged care and design. Learn about enabling environments and how to assess an environment.
Care minutes supplement estimator
This estimator will help non-specialised homes in metropolitan areas estimate how much care minutes supplement they could receive based on care minutes performance.
Webinar 2: Designing better aged care environments – Questions and answers
This document provides answers to the questions raised during the Designing better aged care environments webinar held on 12 March 2026.
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