Publications

his document provides monthly Hearing Services Program statistics for August 2023, on clients, vouchers, devices and service providers.

This weekly report provides a snapshot of data on the impact of COVID-19 in residential aged care facilities nationally. The report includes data on the number of services impacted and number of staff and resident cases, as well as workforce, testing and PPE provided to affected services.

What you need to know before deciding on cosmetic surgery

This publication provides key information from the seventh meeting of the Allied Health Industry Reference Group. This includes major topics that were covered, points of discussion, and actions that we have agreed to.

The department has been working with older people, aged care providers and industry to help improve the quality and design of aged care accommodation. Draft design principles and guidelines have been developed to help guide providers/architects when building or renovating facilities.

This report, and accompanying table, provide a fortnightly summary on notifications of Australia's nationally notifiable diseases for 25 July 2023 to 6 August 2023.

This report, and accompanying table, provide a fortnightly summary on notifications of Australia's nationally notifiable diseases for 7 August 2023 to 20 August 2023.

A media release from Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care Ged Kearney urging women to share their experiences of bias in the health system through the first public consultation of its kind in Australia.

An evaluation of the first phase of the SDCP has been completed, which provides evidence on the implementation, outcomes, and impact of providing tailored residential support for people living with very severe behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

This alert contains updates for disability service providers about the COVID-19 vaccination rollout.

This infographic shows the number of flu (influenza) vaccinations reported to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) during the 2020-2023, since 1 March.

Trachoma is the world’s leading infectious cause of preventable blindness. In Australia, it occurs primarily in remote and very remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, South Australia, and Western Australia. This document reports on the prevalence of trachoma in Australia in 2021.

Trachoma is the world’s leading infectious cause of preventable blindness. In Australia, it occurs primarily in remote and very remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, South Australia, and Western Australia. This document reports on the prevalence of trachoma in Australia in 2020.

Health Ministers from all Australian governments met on 1 September 2023 to discuss a range of important issues for Australia’s healthcare system. These include workforce and regulatory reforms to cosmetic surgery, medical college accreditation of specialist training sites, responses to allegations.

Cost recovery arrangements commenced on 1 July 2020 for Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) evaluation that supports Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) consideration of vaccines for the National Immunisation Program (NIP).

This snapshot provides information on the financial performance of the Australian aged care sector from January to March 2023. It includes analysis of residential care and home care.

This weekly report provides a snapshot of data on the impact of COVID-19 in residential aged care facilities nationally. The report includes data on the number of services impacted and number of staff and resident cases, as well as workforce, testing and PPE provided to affected services.

This document includes information to help clinicians and pharmacists connect to the National Prescription Delivery Service.

This report sets out the number of refusals by insurers to provide insurance cover to medical practitioners and the number of contracts with a risk surcharge in 2022–23. It also sets out the total number of withdrawals from contracts, and complaints about refusals and surcharges.

This presentation, delivered on 1 September 2023, contains an update to Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

This data file contains statistical data about Australia's COVID-19 vaccinations.

This report outlines the evaluation of evidence on the clinical effectiveness of tai chi as part of the Natural Therapies Review 2024.

Our Corporate Plan outlines how we will deliver the health system for all Australians throughout 2023–24.

This plan supports research investments under the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) to improve the mental health of children.

This resource provides a list of mental health and wellbeing services and supports available to First Nations peoples.