Publications

This toolkit provides information and materials to help aged care providers, peak bodies, advocacy organisations and community groups inform older people, their families and carers about what to expect when the new Aged Care Act starts on 1 November 2025.

A checklist of activities to help aged care service delivery during emergency events. This list is for residential aged care providers.

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 Excel document aims to help providers identify gaps in their 24/7 RN coverage. It contains instructions on how to calculate gaps in coverage for the reported month.

This resource sets out the program guidelines for the Bulk Billing Practice Incentive Program.

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 is a guidance document intended to help participants better understand their monthly statement under the Support at Home program. Providers’ monthly statements may look different.

This document is an example of the monthly statement that providers will send to their participants under the Support at Home program. Providers’ templates may look different.

Information for residents about COVID-19 vaccination, including how to get the vaccine, eligibility, consent, side effects and the type of vaccine used.

This guide will assist Short-Term Restorative Care providers to transition to the Support at Home program. It includes information about the new Restorative Care Pathway, transition scenarios for STRC clients, transition activities for STRC providers and STRC transition FAQs.

Eligible donors complete this form and submit to livingorgandonation@health.gov.au.

This page lists the medical devices and human tissue products private health insurers must pay benefits for to the patients who have appropriate insurance policies. The latest version of the Prescribed List is effective from 1 November 2025.

This document provides an overview of the revised timeframes for eNRMC systems to achieve electronic prescribing conformance and for aged care services to transition.

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing and the Australian Digital Health Agency are working with eNRMC software vendors to ensure electronic prescribing enabled eNRMC systems are available by 1 October 2025.

This document provides an update for residential aged care services on the availability of conformant eNRMC systems by October 2025, which include electronic prescribing capabilities and enhanced safety features.

This document provides information for prescribers about the rollout of electronic prescribing conformant eNRMC systems in residential aged care, including the various types of eNRMC systems they may encounter during the transition phase.

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing and the Australian Digital Health Agency (Agency) are working with eNRMC software vendors to ensure conformant eNRMC systems with electronic prescribing capability are available during October 2025.

This fact sheet explains what happens and your rights and responsibilities if you need to make a late cancellation to a scheduled service or you miss an appointment.

This presentation supports the aged care providers to manage the transition to the new Aged Care Act, Support at Home program, new regulatory model and strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards.

Eligible donors use this log to keep track of leave they take associated with their organ donation.

This booklet is aimed at older people and their families and carers. It contains information about the Support at Home program.

Support at Home helps older people live at home for longer. This booklet provides information about the program for older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their families and carers

Providers, peak bodies, advocacy organisations and community groups can use this toolkit to inform older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their families and carers about the new Support at Home program. The program starts along with the new Aged Care Act from 1 November 2025.

This document provides an overview of the discussion from the 114th Meeting of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI).

A summary of the Aged Care Transition Taskforce meeting held on 15 October 2025.