Publications

This poster provides information about getting vaccinated against the flu in 2025.

This document provides answers to frequently asked questions from the 11 February webinar about changes to residential aged care fees under the new Aged Care Act from 1 July 2025.

The meeting of the National Aged Care Advisory Council was held on the 29 January 2025.

An update from the Council of Elders after their meeting on 5 and 6 February 2025.

This is the presentation slides of a webinar hosted by Natasha Ploenges CEO, Health and Medical Research Office and Dr Jane Reid, Director of the Missions Team, of the Health and Medical Research Office, on 5 December 2024 about the Medical Research Future Fund’s Australian Brain Cancer Mission.

Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) advice regarding the administration of 2025 seasonal influenza vaccines.

This toolkit provides information and material to support aged care providers and workers understand their responsibilities and obligations to prepare for and prevent the spread of infectious respiratory diseases.

This toolkit provides information and material to support communication with your older community to prepare for and prevent the spread of infectious respiratory diseases, particularly those living in aged care.

This toolkit provides information and material to support communication with older people from our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to prepare for and prevent the spread of common infectious respiratory diseases, like COVID-19 and influenza (flu).

These presentation slides are for the Reform readiness for NATSIFAC providers webinar event held on Thursday 20 March 2025.

This toolkit provides information and material to support communication with older people from our multicultural communities to prepare for and prevent the spread of infectious respiratory diseases, particularly those living in aged care.

A copy of the letter the department sent CHSP providers to support their unregistered and unassessed CHSP clients in the lead up to the new Aged Care Act 2024.

This report summarises consultation findings on proposed changes to Star Ratings for residential aged care, focusing on Compliance and Staffing ratings, and 2024 evaluation outcomes. It combines stakeholder feedback to reflect diverse perspectives from various consultation activities.

Type 2 diabetes is a common chronic disease. Many Australians are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes, especially if they have certain risk factors. This tool uses a brief list of questions to assess the risk of a person developing type 2 diabetes in the next 5 years.

A letter template developed to help CHSP providers to support their unregistered and unassessed CHSP clients in the lead up to the new Aged Care Act 2024 coming into effect on 1 July 2025.

This fact sheet has been developed as guidance material for CHSP providers to support their unregistered and unassessed CHSP clients in the lead up to the new Aged Care Act 2024 coming into effect on 1 July 2025.

This fact sheet explains the review of the remoteness classification system for aged care. It looks at the use of the Modified Monash Model (MMM) in aged care to support service delivery in regional, rural and remote locations.

The purpose of this document is to further explain the release of topics in the new Aged Care Rules of the Aged Care Act 2024.

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 monkeypox.

The Health Provider Compliance Strategy 2025–30 outlines our risk and proportion-based approach to health provider compliance. We aim to prevent incorrect claiming, support providers to get it right, and effectively address cases of non-compliance, contributing to a sustainable Medicare system.

The Health Provider Compliance Priorities 2025 reflect our public commitment to act. We also monitor for environmental changes, meaning that compliance priorities may evolve in response to emerging risks.

This weekly report provides a snapshot of data on the impact of COVID-19 in residential aged care facilities nationally in 2025. It includes data on the number of services impacted and number of staff and resident cases, as well as workforce, vaccine rollout, testing and PPE provided to services.

This document summarises the discussion and outcomes of the Digital Transformation Sector Partners meeting on 20 February 2025.

This document summarises the discussion and outcomes of the Digital Transformation Sector Partners meeting on 6 March 2025.

This document summarises the discussion and outcomes of the Digital Transformation Sector Partners meeting on 6 March 2025.