Publications

Residential aged care providers use this business case template to apply for grants under the Business Improvement Fund.

This letter is from the Chief Medical Officer to aged care providers. It's on the importance of infection control and health emergency planning in residential care.

The National Strategic Action Plan for Rare Diseases outlines principles and actions to bring about the best possible health and wellbeing outcomes for Australians living with a rare disease.

The Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) has developed standard case definitions for the diagnosis of key diseases in Australia. This document contains the laboratory case definition for invasive pneumococcal disease.

This report provides statistics and data on private health insurance reforms for the reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2019.

The Australian Health Sector Emergency Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (the COVID-19 Plan) guides the Australian health sector response.

This communique summarises the meeting of the Residential Aged Care (RAC) Funding Reform Working Group held on 18 February 2020.

This literature review was prepared to inform policy advice on improving the access, distribution and quality of rural and remote allied health services.

This document is a summary of the Healthy Food Partnership Program – Executive Committee's February 2020 meeting.

This document provides a summary of the consultation held about education and health literacy to support the development of the National Preventive Health Strategy.

An information sheet for paramedics and ambulance first responders about coronavirus (COVID-19).

Use this form to provide a person's details, including any preferences, to help match them to a suitable volunteer visitor. You can complete this as an aged care service provider, a volunteer visitor auspice coordinator, a person wanting to be visited or their representative.

This document represents a summary of the literature reviews which were originally conducted in March–April 2018 and updated in January 2019, with minor final amendments made in July 2019.

This document explains how laboratories should do 2019-nCoV testing.

This report, and accompanying table, provide a fortnightly summary on notifications of Australia's nationally notifiable diseases for 1 to 17 January 2020.

This report is of gifts given to officers of the Department of Health that are valued over $100, as at 20 January, 2020.

This consultation report outlines the feedback we received about the Stoma Appliance Scheme from ostomates and other stakeholders following consultation in 2019.

This report summarises the status of an ongoing outbreak of infectious syphilis among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote and rural areas of northern Australia, as of 31 January 2020.

The surveillance reports summarise the status of an ongoing outbreak of infectious syphilis among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote and rural areas of northern Australia. This report consolidates the monthly surveillance reports from February 2019 to January 2020.

This report shows the monthly growth in ACFI subsidies compared to estimates for February 2020.

This final report outlines the results of the Macquarie University project to enhance patient outcomes through evaluation of the appropriateness and quality use of pathology in general practice.

The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC), on the advice of the Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA), has considered the changes in epidemiology of novel coronavirus in China.

Natural Therapies Review Expert Advisory Panel (NTREAP) meeting outcomes for 16 January 2020 meeting.

This communique provides a summary of the National Suicide Prevention Adviser's initial findings.

The Australian Government response to the Multi-Purpose Services Program review recommendations.