Publications

Australian Government response to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee report: The prevalence of different types of speech, language and communication disorders and speech pathology services in Australia

The 2017 aged care advertising campaign aimed to raise awareness of My Aged Care and encourage older people, their families and carers to plan for aged care. This report examines the effectiveness of the 2017 aged card advertising campaign.

Australian Government response to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health and Ageing report Thinking Ahead – Report on the Inquiry into Dementia: early diagnosis and intervention

Australian Government response to the Senate Select Committee on Health First Interim Report

Australian Government response to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee report: Care and management of younger and older Australians living with dementia and behavioural and psychiatric symptoms of dementia (BPSD)

The plan supports the national response to the disproportionately high rates of sexually transmitted infections and bloodborne viruses in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

This report presents long-term, national workforce projections for emergency medicine doctors to 2030. It is part of our series on Australia’s Future Health Workforce.

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 Q fever.

Genomics has the potential to improve the health of all Australians by helping doctors prevent, diagnose, treat and monitor diseases. This framework provides a nationally consistent approach to policy, regulatory and investment decisions about integrating genomics into our health system.

An overview of activities by the Australian National Advisory Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs (ANACAD) from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.

Being active is important for babies and young children to be healthy, and sets good habits for life. This brochure outlines how much activity small children should do each day, how sitting time and screen time should be avoided or limited and how much sleep they should get.

Being active is important for babies and young children to be healthy, and sets good habits for life. Read about how much activity small children should do each day, how sitting time and screen time should be avoided or limited, and how much sleep they should get.

This manual guides service delivery under the Short-Term Restorative Care Programme.

Eligible donors complete this form and submit to livingorgandonation@health.gov.au.

This framework supports the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program. It outlines best practices in implementing the Program, the screening process itself and how the Program will be managed and reviewed.

This report summarises the finding from consultations held in April and May 2017 to inform the development of an enduring National Breastfeeding Strategy.

Australian Government response to the Senate Community Affairs References Committee Report: Availability of new, innovative and specialist cancer drugs in Australia

A summary of the major items discussed at the third MDAF meeting.

These spreadsheets provide 2017 childhood immunisation coverage data by Primary Health Network (PHN), for all children and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

This report presents the findings of the 2017 independent review of aged care regulatory processes. It includes 10 recommended actions to improve the regulation of quality in aged care.

This clinical advice from the BreastScreen Australia (BSA) reviews the use of fine needle aspiration in screening services.

This document summarises the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Taskforce’s recommendations in response to the After-Hours Working Group's report.

This report contains the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Taskforce's findings and recommendations to the Australian Government on its review of urgent after-hours primary care services funded through the MBS.

This checklist is for providers of residential aged care. It has what to do before and during a heatwave.

This guide helps Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) service providers understand the reports they create in Data Exchange.