Publications

A fact sheet about the Australian Government's response to the COVID-19 outbreak. This fact sheet is about electronic prescribing (ePrescribing) to help protect people most at-risk in our community from exposure to COVID-19.

Australian Government Response to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport’s report on the Inquiry into Biotoxin-related Illnesses in Australia.

This report describes the assessment and evaluation of the National Palliative Care Projects which are funded under the Public Health and Chronic Disease Grant Program. The Report outlines key findings and recommendations.

This information sheet provides information on the aeromedical retrieval of patients with COVID-19.

This report identifies the range of support and revenue sources available to the ACCHS sector.

OSHC is private health insurance for overseas students and their dependants. It includes ambulance cover and limited pharmaceutical items.

Australian Government response to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry into the Quality of Care Amendment (Minimising the Use of Restraints) Principles 2019.

This resource provides advice for immunisation providers regarding the administration of 2020 seasonal influenza vaccines.

View the grouping schemes for each product category in the Prostheses List, effective from 1 March 2020. They include suffixes and definitions.

This document provides a summary of evidence used to inform Australia’s physical activity and sedentary behaviour guidelines for pregnant women in Australia.

This report shows the monthly growth in ACFI subsidies compared to estimates for March 2020.

Residential aged care providers use this business case template to apply for grants under the Business Improvement Fund.

This letter is from the Chief Medical Officer to aged care providers. It's on the importance of infection control and health emergency planning in residential care.

The National Strategic Action Plan for Rare Diseases outlines principles and actions to bring about the best possible health and wellbeing outcomes for Australians living with a rare disease.

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 invasive pneumococcal disease.

This report provides statistics and data on private health insurance reforms for the reporting period 1 October to 31 December 2019.

The Australian Health Sector Emergency Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (the COVID-19 Plan) guides the Australian health sector response.

This communique summarises the meeting of the Residential Aged Care (RAC) Funding Reform Working Group held on 18 February 2020.

This literature review was prepared to inform policy advice on improving the access, distribution and quality of rural and remote allied health services.

This document is a summary of the Healthy Food Partnership Program – Executive Committee's February 2020 meeting.

This document provides a summary of the consultation held about education and health literacy to support the development of the National Preventive Health Strategy.

An information sheet for paramedics and ambulance first responders about coronavirus (COVID-19).

Use this form to provide a person's details, including any preferences, to help match them to a suitable volunteer visitor. You can complete this as an aged care service provider, a volunteer visitor auspice coordinator, a person wanting to be visited or their representative.

This document represents a summary of the literature reviews which were originally conducted in March–April 2018 and updated in January 2019, with minor final amendments made in July 2019.

This document explains how laboratories should do 2019-nCoV testing.