Publications

This fact sheet provides information on the Workforce Incentive Program Practice Stream (WIP-PS) payment.

This document provides general practices and other stakeholders with additional information about the Workforce Incentive Program – Practice Stream (WIP-PS). It answers some frequently asked questions about the program.

Learn more about the harms of smoking, how to quit and support options to help you give up for good.

Learn more about the harms of vaping, how to quit and support options to help you give up for good.

These frequently asked questions provide information on smoking and quitting, including how smoking affects your physical and mental health, and those around you. They also contain information on how to quit and support resources.

These frequently asked questions provide information on vaping and quitting, including how vaping affects your physical and mental health. They also contain information on how to quit and support resources.

Slides for the Publishing provider reporting for stakeholders and the community webinar. This webinar gives providers an overview of how their operational and financial data will be published on My Aged Care in 2024.

This document provides a record of the meeting of the Co-design Working Group on 7 May 2024. Their work guides the Co-design of an Enhanced Consumer Engagement Process.

This document outlines the governance of the Jurisdictional Haemopoietic Progenitor Cell Committee (JHPCC). This committee supports the implementation of the National HPC Framework. It advises Health Chief Executives and Health Ministers on haemopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) policy and funding.

This flyer gives aged care providers information about how they can be verified on My Aged Care for the specialist care they offer to older people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences.

This flyer gives aged care providers information about the free aged care translation service, which they can use to produce translated versions of print and digital materials in different languages, as well as ‘Easy Read’ or ‘Easy English’ translation.

This flyer gives aged care providers information about how they can access TIS National free of charge for phone interpreting, in-person interpreting and video interpreting, which enables communication with older people in different languages.

This flyer gives aged care providers information about free training and resources to help them care for older people with diverse backgrounds and life experience in a way that is respectful, safe and culturally appropriate.

It is unlikely but possible that a patient in primary care with respiratory symptoms will have Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), so be alert for the possibility of MERS in returned travellers.

Health professionals should be alert to the possibility of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in unwell travellers returning from the Middle East and obtain a full travel and exposure history.

This document includes an overview of the key elements of the Health Insurance Legislation Amendment (Assignment of Medicare Benefits) Bill 2024 as introduced to Parliament on 29 May 2024. It focuses on simplified billing assignment.

This report, and accompanying table, provide a fortnightly summary on notifications of Australia's nationally notifiable diseases for 29 April 2024 to 12 May 2024.

An overview of the Private Hospital Sector Financial Health Check.

The Nurse Practitioner Workforce Plan Implementation Advisory Group (IAG) met on 20 May 2024. This document provides a record of the meeting.

This document provides the Australian Government's response to the report on the Independent Capability Review of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC). The Government accepts all 32 recommendations.

An interactive monthly planner to plan what activities you will do to meet the physical activity guidelines. You can plan and record your activities and monitor your progress.

An agreement between the Department of Health and Aged Care and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia.

An agreement between the Department of Health & Aged Care and the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.

This booklet has information about aged care volunteering and the ACVVS for potential and current volunteers, volunteer managers and providers.

This fact sheet details key changes to dispensing medicines under the Eighth Pharmacy Agreement (8CPA). The 8CPA started on 1 July 2024 and will be in place until 30 June 2029.