Publications

This publication contains the presentation slides of the Digital Transformation Tech Talk webinar held on 2 April 2025. During this webinar, we covered the latest updates on digital transformation for the aged care sector.

This document is for government-subsidised residential aged care providers. The document details a range of frequently asked questions and answers to support residential aged care providers to understand and meet the requirements of the allied health quality indicators.

Australia is one of the most diverse countries in the world. According to the 2021 Census, 5.8 million (22.8 per cent) Australian residents speak a language other than English at home and 872,000 (3.4 per cent) could not speak English well or not at all.

This infographic shows the number of flu (influenza) vaccinations reported to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) during 2021–2025, since 1 March.

Researchers can use these concordance files for Australian Statistical Geography Standards (ASGS) Statistical Area Level 3 to Primary Health Networks to undertake geospatial and data analysis.

Researchers can use these concordance files for Australian Statistical Geography Standards (ASGS) Statistical Area Level 1 to Primary Health Networks to undertake geospatial and data analysis.

Researchers can use these concordance files for Australian Statistical Geography Standards (ASGS) Statistical Area Level 2 to Primary Health Networks to undertake geospatial and data analysis.

Researchers can use these concordance files for Commonwealth Electoral Divisions 2021 to Primary Health Networks 2017 to undertake geospatial and data analysis.

Researchers can use these concordance files for Local Government Areas to Primary Health Networks to undertake geospatial and data analysis.

Researchers can use these concordance files for Postal Areas to Primary Health Networks to undertake geospatial and data analysis.

This document provides guidance for Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) providers about the new regulatory model.

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 report summarises the consultation on the strategic documents for the Traumatic Brain Injury Mission between 8 January 2025 and 10 February 2025. The Traumatic Brain Injury Mission is a Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) initiative.

The Annual Australian Respiratory Surveillance Report – 2024 is a report on the surveillance and epidemiology of acute respiratory infections in Australia in 2024.

Read the outcomes of the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Traumatic Brain Injury Mission International Review Panel meeting on 6 February 2025.

This plan supported the implementation of the Medical Research Future Fund’s (MRFF) Traumatic Brain Injury Mission Roadmap between September 2021 and March 2025.

This Roadmap outlines the vision, goals and priorities for the Medical Research Future Fund’s (MRFF) Traumatic Brain Injury Mission between September 2021 and March 2025.

Slides accompanying the Support at Home program update for older people, families and carers webinar.

This chart shows the structure of the Department of Health and Aged Care, including our divisions, branches, statutory office holders and high priority taskforces.

This dataset contains updates to Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Group (AR-DRG) tables for Hospital Casemix Protocol (HCP) data.

This dataset contains updates to Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Group (AR-DRG) tables for Private Hospital Data Bureau (PHDB) data.

This infographic shows the number of flu (influenza) vaccinations reported to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) during 2021–2025, since 1 March.

This manual is for government-subsidised residential aged care providers. Part B includes a range of tools and resources to support continuous quality improvement for each of the QI Program quality indicators.

The QI Program Manual 4.0 outlines definitions of each quality indicator and provides information on how to collect and submit quality indicator data.

This publication provides key information from the 13th meeting of the Allied Health Industry Reference Group, which was open to all allied health professional associations. The publication includes major topics that were covered, points of discussion, and actions that the Department has agreed to.