Resources

This guidance material aims to assist registered providers delivering funded aged care services to understand and comply with the worker screening requirements introduced by the Aged Care Act 2024 and the Aged Care Rules 2025 that commence on 1 November 2025.

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 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.

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 have worked closely with software vendors over the past 3 years to develop electronic prescribing capabilities and enhanced safety features within eNRMC systems.

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 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 list is to guide aged care providers on what to do before and after 1 November 2025, to implement the new Aged Care Act and Support at Home program.

This document outlines policy information about the GP Training Incentive Payments for GP registrars.

This document outlines the Healthdirect and signage requirements for practices participating in Bulk Billing Practice Incentive Program (BBPIP).

This document summarises the discussion and outcomes of the Digital Transformation Sector Partners meeting held on 7 August 2025.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the 8 ongoing classifications and budgets in the Support at Home program.

This checklist is for providers of residential aged care. It has what to do before and during a heatwave.

This document contains the slide presentation from the Digital Transformation Sector Partners meeting held on 7 August 2025.

View the current and previous BIR and MPIR for residential aged care. Find out which rate to use to calculate accommodation payments and contributions and interest amounts.

This document gives guidance on the actions Home Care Package providers and Short-Term Restorative Care providers should take to be operationally ready to transition to the Support at Home program.

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.