Review and development of a specialisation verification framework for My Aged Care – Final report

This final report from Australian Healthcare Associates (AHA) outlines the results of a review into selecting special needs specialisations within the My Aged Care system's Find a Provider tool. It also discusses developing a framework to verify specialisations and research on ways to do this.

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Review and development of a specialisation verification framework for My Aged Care – Final report

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This final report:

  • explores patterns in aged care specialisation, providers’ awareness of existing guidelines and the effectiveness of the current approach to nominating specialisations
  • discusses what it means to offer specialist care and characteristics of aged care services that nominate each specialisation
  • discusses possible verification approaches, the strengths and limitations of each, and a tiered approach to differentiate between stronger and weaker specialisation criteria
  • describes the feasibility and usability testing stages and their outcomes
  • presents a proposed specialisation verification framework 
  • provides recommendations for implementation supports and ongoing monitoring and updates to the framework.

Read more information about the development of the specialisation verification framework.

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