Publications

This Excel document aims to help guide aged care providers when submitting information and documents for a care time reporting assessment. It contains examples of calculations and workings for information and documents commonly requested.

This form comes with your bowel screening kit, but if it gets lost or damaged you can print a new one. Complete and sign a new form and return it with your bowel screening samples in the reply paid envelope.

This presentation, delivered on 10 January 2025, contains an update to Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

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

Read and order hard copies of this booklet about steps to enter an aged care home.

The MyMedicare Program Guidelines (the guidelines) provide clear guidance for practices, General Practitioners (GPs) and patients who wish to voluntarily register with the MyMedicare Program (the program). The guidelines also set out the program’s requirements, benefits and dispute processes.

This publication provides key information from the 12 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.

This poster shows the male health benefits when you quit smoking.

Questions and answers from the residential aged care funding reform update webinar held on 18 September 2024.

The National Consistent Payments (NCP) Fact Sheet contains a brief summary on the NCP process, including payment details and links to resources that contain more detailed information.

This framework outlines how we will monitor and evaluate strengthening Medicare measures over the next 5 years. This includes tracking the implementation and delivery of strengthening Medicare measures and reporting on their overall impact.

This document contains the surveillance case definition for Vibrio parahaemolyticus, which is nationally notifiable within Australia. State and territory health departments use this definition to decide whether to notify the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care of a case.

This fact sheet provides more information about the Child Dental Benefits Schedule.

This fact sheet answers questions Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may have about the shingles vaccine.

This communique is a summary of the Social and Emotional Wellbeing Policy Partnership meeting on 29 August 2024.

This fact sheet explains more about Medicare benefits such as affordable health care, urgent care and mental health services.

This user guide aims to support residential aged care and home care providers in completing and submitting their provider operations reporting requirements via the GPMS portal.

This guide lists common keyboard shortcuts to make it easier for assessors to navigate the My Aged Care assessor portal.

This guide explains how Residential Aged Care (RAC) Funding Assessor Team Leaders can perform their function in the My Aged Care assessor portal.

This guide explains how Assessment Organisation Team Leaders can perform functionality for Residential Respite Classification Referrals in the My Aged Care assessor portal.

This guide gives people who use the My Aged Care assessor portal an overview of the portal and instructions on how to use it.

This guide explains how clinical aged care needs assessors and assessment delegates should enter and manage Short-Term Restorative Care (STRC) details in the My Aged Care assessor portal.

This guide explains to assessment delegates and clinical aged care needs assessors on how to enter all the details for older people to receive Home Care Packages in the My Aged Care assessor portal.

This guide explains how assessment organisations can apply to become assessment delegates in the My Aged Care assessor portal, and how team leaders can action or initiate a request.

This guide explains to assessment organisation staff about the administrative functions that can be performed in the assessment delegate support role in the My Aged Care assessor portal.