Publications

This fact sheet provides some tips and ideas for adding activity into your everyday life, and for reducing the time you spend sitting and lying down. Small changes to your daily routine can make a big difference.

These ministerial guidelines set out the extenuating circumstances in which dental providers will be exempt from complying with certain conditions outlined in the informed financial consent requirements of Rule 15 of the Dental Benefits Rules 2013.

These guidelines for Public Health Units provide nationally consistent guidance on how to respond to trachoma. They are part of a Series of National Guidelines (SoNGs) published by the Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA).

This guideline informs entities and facilities under the Security Sensitive Biological Agents (SSBA) Regulatory Scheme when and how they can allow other regulatory schemes to access secure SSBA areas or sensitive information.

This guideline outlines the reporting and other general requirements for a non-registered facility that receives a confirmed, or suspected, security sensitive biological agent (SSBA).

This guideline explains what entities or facilities are for the purposes of the Security Sensitive Biological Agents (SSBA) Regulatory Scheme.

This guideline informs registered entities and facilities about the Security Sensitive Biological Agents (SSBA) Regulatory Scheme’s reporting requirements and contains several flow charts.

This policy outlines why we don’t routinely screen women under 50 years of age for breast cancer. Women aged between 40 and 49 are still able to be screened if they want to.

This policy outlines why we don’t routinely screen women who already have breast cancer symptoms. They need diagnostic mammography rather than the screening program.

This policy outlines how BreastScreen Australia manages women who present to the screening program with symptoms of breast cancer.

These guidelines for Public Health Units provide nationally consistent guidance on how to respond to Murray Valley encephalitis virus. They are part of a Series of National Guidelines (SoNGs) published by the Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA).

This evaluation resource aims to help the states and territories assess the process and impact of introducing the National Healthy School Canteens guidelines to school canteens.

This fact sheet provides advice to food handlers on health, hygiene, food preparation, hand washing and gloves procedures.

These training documents help canteen managers set up healthy canteens.

These guidelines provide information to school canteen managers who want to supply healthy foods and drinks in their canteens.

This pocket guide provides a summary of the guidelines, including what makes a healthy canteen menu, what foods to select, and what to avoid.

This document enables trainers to provide school canteen managers with the skills and understanding needed to use the National Healthy School Canteens food categorisation system.

This workbook is for participants of National Healthy School Canteens training. It outlines what they need to know to provide healthy canteen menus.

This poster shows the green, amber and red foods, to help canteen managers provide a healthy menu.

This document outlines why healthy food canteens are important and how to have a healthy canteen menu.

These standards outline capabilities that all mental health professionals should achieve in their work. They complement discipline-specific practice standards or competencies of the professions of nursing, occupational therapy, psychiatry, psychology and social work.

This document shows how much we spent in 2012–13 on stoma appliances and products under the Stoma Appliance Scheme.

This fact sheet explains what to do if an SSBA has to be moved outside of the secure perimeter. This may happen in an emergency situation, such as a freezer malfunction, or if emergency maintenance is required.

This fact sheet outlines the legislation that governs the regulation of controls for handling SSBAs in Australia. It includes the National Health Security Act 2007, the National Health Security Regulations 2008 and the SSBA Standards.

This fact sheet provides information about the roles and responsibilities of top management.