Our work

Changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule items for chronic disease management have been deferred from 1 November 2024 until 1 July 2025. The additional time will support all practices and providers, including GPs and allied health providers, to be ready for the changes to these important services.

We reviewed the comparative clinical and cost-effectiveness of mid-urethral slings (MUS) on the Prescribed List (PL).

The Vaccine Administration Partners Program (VAPP) panel is a list of immunisation providers (IProviders). Learn about the panel, its aims and benefits and how to find an IProvider.

Learn about how the Medical Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Advisory Committee (MRAC) is reviewing VIR MBS items.

We are developing and testing a framework to deliver virtual nursing services to improve clinical care for older people in residential aged care homes.

This program aims to reduce drownings and snow-related injuries and deaths through prevention and intervention.

The WIP improves access to quality medical, nursing, midwifery and allied health services in regional, rural and remote areas. Its financial incentives encourage doctors to work in these areas and support medical practices to employ nurses, midwives and eligible allied health professionals.

This review examined how effective our current health workforce ‘distribution levers’ are. These levers consist of policies and geographic classifications that are intended to distribute health workforce across areas that need them most. The final report is now available.

This website provides resources for young people, Elders, parents, youth workers, community leaders and clinicians in remote Aboriginal communities, to encourage testing of sexually transmissible infections and bloodborne viruses, and get rid of them in the community.

We are working to stop younger people under 65 going into residential aged care. We are helping younger people consider and access suitable accommodation and support.