Publications

This template can be used as a care planner for aged care home residents registered as incentive patients.

This tool is for a register of a practice’s patients and participating in the incentive, to tracking their servicing requirements.

This information kit is for residential aged care home staff to assist in understanding, communicating, and supporting the incentive.

This template is for the provider and practice to track a patient’s incentive servicing requirements over the 12-month period.

PowerPoint presentation for aged care experts and peak bodies to understand the incentive.

This booklet is designed to be distributed to residential aged care residents who are interested in learning more about the incentive.

This fact sheet notes the key implementation partners for the incentive and their roles.

This document covers 2 hypothetical scenarios of two different people living in residential aged care homes and how the incentive can be applied in their context.

This fact sheet states the principles of person-centred care, and strategies to strengthen this care under the incentive.

This fact sheet stating the benefits of the incentive to general practitioners, residential aged care homes and residents.

PowerPoint presentation for residential aged care home staff to show to their residents interested in the incentive.

PowerPoint presentation for residential aged care home staff.

PowerPoint presentation for primary care peak bodies to understand the incentive.

This information kit targets the relevant aged care peak bodies to assist in understanding, communicating, and supporting the incentive.

Document targeted at primary care providers and practices wanting to learn more about delivering the incentive, including the requirements and information on primary care in residential aged care homes.

Health and Mental Health Ministers met on 16 August 2024 to discuss the key issues affecting Australia’s mental health system and explored options for reform.

Health Ministers met in Sydney on 16 August 2024 to discuss a range of important issues. This includes topics such as health reform, the national COVID inquiry, mental health and suicide prevention, and family, domestic and sexual violence.

This is the government response to the final report of an independent evaluation of the Better Access to Psychiatrists, Psychologists and General Practitioners through the Medicare Benefits Schedule initiative (Better Access).

This report presents 2022-23 estimates of unmet need for psychosocial supports in Australia.

This statement from Australian Health Ministers provides key context for the analysis of unmet need for psychosocial supports outside of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, key findings and limitations and next steps for governments’ considerations.

Use this form to sign up to the Healthy Food Partnership and commit to the recommendations in the Healthy Food Partnership guide to voluntary serving size reduction.

This guide informs and support food companies to determine appropriate serving sizes for food and drinks to support consumers to manage their energy intakes. It provides serving size recommendations for 9 priority food categories.

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.

Health Ministers met today in Sydney and discussed ongoing management of shortages of IV fluids.

The template for reporting on the progress of Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grants administered by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).