Our work

headspace provides mental health support services to young people aged 12 to 25 years, who are experiencing, or at risk, of mental ill-health.

The Health Peak and Advisory Bodies Program supports peak and advisory bodies in the health sector to develop our national health system.

We are enhancing the Health Products Portal (HPP) to provide a single digital channel for industry to interact with us about regulated and reimbursed health-related products and services.

The HTA Review examined Australia’s approach to HTA to determine what works well and what needs to improve to meet future challenges. The aim was to ensure Australians can continue to access effective, safe and affordable health technologies in an equitable and timely way.

This program provides scholarships and bursaries to existing health professionals committed to rural and remote service. It supports the cost of completing postgraduate and short courses, attending accredited industry conferences, or completing vocational education and training courses.

Eating a wide variety of fruit and vegetables promotes good health. Australia has high quality produce and there is plenty to choose from throughout the year.

Through the voluntary Healthy Food Partnership, we work with the food industry and the public health sector to encourage Australians to eat healthy foods, and we support food companies to make positive changes. This will help reduce diet-related diseases, and overweight and obesity in Australia.

The Hearing Services Program provides subsidised high-quality hearing services and devices to eligible Australians with hearing loss.

This initiative reduces outstanding Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) debt for eligible doctors and nurse practitioners who live and work in rural, remote or very remote areas of Australia.

The HCCS helps medical indemnity insurers with the cost of large claims against doctors, allied health professionals and midwives.

The Australian Government subsidises organisations to provide home care services to eligible older people. As an approved provider of Home Care Packages, make sure you understand how funding works, the fees you can charge, and what your responsibilities are.

We help the aged care sector to grow the home care workforce with targeted support for providers to recruit and retain home care workers. The Home Care Workforce Program ceased on 30 June 2024 to be replaced by a new program in early 2025.

Under the Home Medicines Review, a pharmacist visits patients’ homes to help them understand all the medicines they take, and make recommendations to help health practitioners and patients develop medicine management plans. This helps to increase quality use of medicines and decrease adverse events.

The Hospital to Aged Care Dementia Support Program helps older people living with dementia transition from hospital into residential aged care or home with aged care support.

The Immunoglobulin Review (Ig Review) Pilot Process is looking at the use of government-funded immunoglobulin treatment for selected conditions. This helps us make sure patients receive the most beneficial treatment available.

We are working with older people and the aged care sector to improve the design of residential aged care accommodation.

Learn about compliance and assurance measures to safeguard the settings of the Prescribed List.

We are improving the health and quality of life for older people living in residential aged care through better food and nutrition.

We are funding a range of activities to help primary care better recognise and respond to family and domestic violence.

This project aims to improve access to palliative care for people with intellectual disability through a web-based toolkit and national data collection.

We are increasing support for people with dementia and their carers through dementia-specific respite services.

We are working to create digital solutions to improve the Medicare payment processes. This will increase transparency for patients and better ensure the integrity of Medicare.

We want to support more people with intellectual disability to have annual health assessments. An annual health assessment is a comprehensive assessment of a person. It provides a structured way to identify health issues and conditions that are potentially preventable.

The Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) program helps people and families who have problems with breaking down protein in their food. They need a special diet, and the IEM program helps them pay for their specialised food.

The scheme covers 100% of the cost of eligible IBNR claims that medical defence organisations (MDOs) do not have the reserves to cover, as of 30 June 2002.