Publications

National Aged Care Advisory Council communiqué – September 2024

An update from the Council of Elders after their meeting on 18 September 2024.

This stakeholder toolkit contains key messages, social content, images, and editorial content regarding cervical screening for women and people with disability that can be used directly, or adapted or edited for external channels.

This publication contains the presentation slides of the aged care reforms webinar Impacts on the Multi-Purpose Service (MPS) program and providers.

Sunraysia Community Health Services will deliver the CP@clinic under the Innovative Models of Care Program to provide community paramedic coordinated care across 4 community health services.

These guidelines describe recommended public health responses to cases and contacts of mpox. The Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) will continue to review these guidelines as more information becomes available.

Information for physicians on referring patients with suspected mpox. It also includes how to safely and correctly collect and transport specimens.

This document provides answers to those questions received at the Monthly Care Statements implementation webinar on Thursday, 29 August 2024.

This spreadsheet classifies MBS items by private health insurance clinical category or procedure type and includes MBS items effective 1 November 2024.

Standard clinical category definitions for private health insurance hospital policies, released on 11 October 2024 and effective 1 November 2024.

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

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

This list includes details of the 26 billing codes for medicines and related accessories scheduled to be removed from Part D of the Prescribed List effective 1 November 2024.

This table provides COVID-19 vaccination rates of aged care residents by facility across Australia over the past 12 months, using data from the Australian Immunisation Register.

Learn more about the harms of smoking, how to quit and support options to help you keep at quitting.

Learn more about the harms of vaping, how to quit and support options to help you keep at quitting

The Stage 2 release will contain the draft Rules for Chapter 4 of the Aged Care Act 2024. Chapter 4 is about the funding of aged care services, including subsidies, contributions, means testing, accommodation and grants.

This report provides an independent evaluation of the Eating Disorders Medicare Benefits Schedule items 2024.

This public interest certificate (PIC) relates to the following tender: Service Management and Service Integration and Management Services.

This report and accompanying table provide a fortnightly summary on notifications of Australia's nationally notifiable diseases for 16 September to 29 September 2024.

These reports list the percentage of people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 by local government area (LGA).

This presentation, delivered on 10 October 2024, contains an update to Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

This data file contains statistical data about Australia's COVID-19 vaccinations.

This fact sheets aims to support residential aged care providers and their understanding when it comes to a care time reporting assessments. It contains useful information, resources and contacts.

This form is to help vaccine providers report a vaccine administration error under the COVID-19 Vaccination Program.