Publications

The National Women’s Health Advisory Council strongly commend the Australian Government’s significant investment made to improve women’s health in Australia.

This poster explains reasons to visit a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic and can be edited to include the name of your local UCC.

This poster gives examples of care that can be provided on the same day at a Medicare Urgent Care Clinic and can be edited to include the name of your local UCC.

This poster promotes bulk billing in Medicare Urgent Care Clinics and can be edited to include the name of your local UCC.

The Australian Government will invest $573.3 million to deliver more choice, lower costs and better health care for women.

The National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Evaluation Framework (Evaluation Framework) provides best practice guidance on the conduct of mental health and suicide prevention evaluations, in order to improve the quality and consistency of evaluations in the sector.

The National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Evaluation Sharing Guidelines (Sharing Guidelines) provides guidance on sharing mental health and suicide prevention evaluations amongst stakeholders.

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.

The National Women's Health Advisory Council commissioned Monash University to undertake this literature review. It examines gender equity issues in the Australian context and provides strategies to reduce sex and gender bias and disparities in the healthcare system.

This public summary document outlines Stoma Product Assessment Panel recommendations, after assessing products for the Stoma Appliance Scheme Schedule in November 2024.

An infographic about 60-day prescription for community and health care settings.

This fact sheet provides information to consumers on the maternal RSV vaccine and infant RSV immunisation products.

This fact sheet provides advice and information to vaccination providers on the Maternal RSV vaccine and RSV immunisation products.

This fact sheet provides answers to frequently asked questions that consumers may have on the Maternal RSV vaccine and the RSV immunisation product.

Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (PAES) focus on explaining changes to the proposed allocation of resources by outcome since the Budget. The PAES provides information on new measures and their impact on the financial and/or non-financial planned performance of programs.

This postcard contains information about volunteering opportunities in aged care and links to resources for Volunteer Managers and providers.

This certification statement, signed by Secretary Blair Comley on 31 January 2025, certifies that the National Primary Care Health Workforce Campaign complies with the relevant guidelines and policies.

This certification statement, signed by A/g Secretary Charles Wann on 14 January 2025, certifies that the Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme campaign burst 2 complies with relevant guidelines and policies.

This communique summarises the meeting of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Review Implementation Advisory Group held on 3 February 2025.

This fortnightly Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report (ARSR) includes information about acute respiratory illnesses including COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus.

An applied systematic review and lived experience informed synthesis of mental health and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ+ people

The Research Translation Paper answers all three key research questions for the LGBTQ+ People and Mental Health Services Research and provides a summary of the Applied Systematic Literature Review.

The Plain English Summary provides a succinct summary of key points from the Applied Systematic Literature Review and Research Translation Paper for the LGBTQ+ People and Mental Health Services Research.

The Stage 2b release of the Aged Care Rules focuses on the funding arrangements for Chapter 4 of the Aged Care Act 2024. This document, which includes a glossary of common terminology, aims to help people better understand the Rules and support them to submit feedback.

This document is the technical supplement to the Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report (ARSR) series. It describes the technical background and considerations to help interpret the ARSR surveillance data reported nationally for COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus.