Publications

We established an Implementation Advisory Group to develop a roadmap for sequencing the government’s response to the recommendations. This document contains MSAC chair's response to the Minister regarding the final report of the HTA Review and provided their initial advice and reflections.

We established an Implementation Advisory Group to develop a roadmap for sequencing the government’s response to the recommendations. This document contains PBAC chair's response to the Minister regarding the final report of the HTA Review and provided their initial advice and reflections.

This document is the final report from the Health Technology Assessment Policy and Methods Review.

This document summarises the recommendations from the Health Technology Assessment Policy and Methods Review report.

This document outlines all of the recommendations from the Health Technology Assessment Policy and Methods Review final report.

The Enhanced Consumer Engagement Process was developed to provide recommendations on how to increase patient and consumer evidence and input earlier in the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) process. This report explains the recommendations developed by the Co-Design Working Group.

This consultation document describes the proposed recommendations for the co-design of an Enhanced Consumer Engagement Process related to health technology assessment (HTA). Read this first to inform your responses to the consultation.

This document includes the consultation questions for the co-design of an Enhanced Consumer Engagement Process project’s consultation survey. View the consultation questions to help you prepare for your responses  to the online survey.

This document covers Australian tick-borne diseases

This document provides evidence-based guidance for clinicians in community and hospital settings, as well as providing a reference source on DSCATT topics. This Guidance Note covers overseas-acquired Lyme disease.

This document introduces the major concepts, issues and diseases and illnesses related to ticks, globally and in Australia.

This document covers the evidence on the currently recognised severe tick-induced allergies.

This document covers prevention and management of tick bites for people living in Australia.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Queensland Tick Typhus.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Q Fever.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Flinders Island spotted fever.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Australian spotted fever.

Epidemiology, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease.

Strategies to prevent tick bites in people/pets.

Symptoms, features and treatment of tick anaphylaxis.

Symptoms, causes, risk factors and prevention of tick paralysis.

Tick biology and tick-borne diseases.

Strategies to administer first aid for tick bites.

This document summarises preliminary findings from a study to identify possible biomarkers for Debilitating Symptom Complex Attributed to Ticks (DSCATT). The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) completed this project in July 2021.

This fact sheet provides information on Q fever in Australia.