Resources

This webinar covered the Australian Apprenticeships (Traineeships) available to residential aged care, home care and Commonwealth Home Support Programme providers to help develop new workers and advance the skills of current aged care workers.

This is the third webinar in a series of webinars to help aged care providers to prepare for, respond to and recover from winter viruses such as influenza, as well as continuing to respond to the threat of COVID-19. This webinar focuses on ‘Recovery and Resilience’.

This webinar on 10 August will provide an update to primary care on Monkeypox (MPX). The panel will provide key updates and answer participants’ questions.

The Australian Government extended the reforms to in-home aged care until July 2024. This webinar will give older Australians, their families and carers, and the aged care sector an update on the reforms. The update will include progress on a new Aged Care Act and regulatory arrangements.

This webinar on 2 March is part of a series to update primary care on the COVID-19 response and the vaccine rollout. The panel will provide key updates and answer participants’ questions.

Some allied health professionals recently gained access to the Free Interpreting Services (FIS). The purpose of this webinar is to provide information on the program, why and how to use an interpreter and how to access the service.

This webinar on 8 December is part of a series to update primary care on the COVID-19 response and the vaccine rollout. The panel will provide key updates and answer participants’ questions.

We are hosting a series of sessions for medical specialists about the Medical Costs Finder (MCF). The MCF has been designed with the medical profession, for the benefit of patients. The project team will provide information on the enhanced MCF and how to register through the secure MCF portal.

All residential aged care providers are encouraged to participate in the 2023 Residents’ Experience Surveys which will contribute 33% to their overall Star Rating score. This webinar will provide information about what has changed in the program since 2022 and how the surveys will be conducted.

This webinar on 15 December is part of a series to update primary care on the COVID-19 response and the vaccine rollout. The panel will provide key updates and answer participants’ questions.

The Department of Health and Aged Care along with the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, is holding a webinar on effective IPC practices. The panel will include experts from the Department and the Commission, along with a special message from the Minister for Aged Care, the Hon Anika Wells MP.

This webinar provides an overview of the new My Aged Care Workforce Learning System which was launched on 1 March 2023. It includes an overview of the new MAClearning learning management system.

This webinar on 13 April is part of a series to update primary care on the COVID-19 response and the vaccine rollout. The panel will provide key updates and answer participants’ questions.

This webinar on 25 May is part of a series to update primary care on the COVID-19 response and the vaccine rollout. The panel will provide key updates and answer participants’ questions.

This webinar on 14 March is part of a series to update primary care on the COVID-19 response and the vaccine rollout. The panel will provide key updates and answer participants’ questions.

From 1 April 2023, residential aged care providers need to collect data for six new quality indicators as part of the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program. To help providers prepare and to support reporting, we hosted a QI Program webinar.

In this first webinar for 2023, the speakers provided a forecast of the Aged Care reforms and digital transformation initiatives expected in the coming months, as well as a ‘playback’ on the Star Ratings release (which went live late last year).

This webinar on 29 March is part of a series to update primary care on the COVID-19 response and the vaccine rollout. The panel will provide key updates and answer participants’ questions.

This webinar on 31 March will update primary care on the Medical Costs Finder. The panel will provide key updates and answer participants’ questions.

In this webinar we shared an update on the policy priorities for the Aged Care reform agenda, provide a playback of our progress on the new Government Provider Management System (GPMS), and took a deeper look at the department's broader data approach.

We’re developing a new model for regulating aged care as part of the changes to improve the quality and safety of aged care in Australia. In this webinar, we share the details and seek your views on the proposed changes.

This webinar provides an update to older people, their families and carers, and the aged care sector on in-home aged care reform.

This webinar on 27 April is part of a series to update primary care on the COVID-19 response and the vaccine rollout. The panel will provide key updates and answer participants’ questions.

This webinar on 11 May is part of a series to update primary care on the COVID-19 response and the vaccine rollout. The panel will provide key updates and answer participants’ questions.

We held an online sector stakeholder briefing on 12 May 2023 with the Department of Education about increasing rural medical training. This briefing included information on an upcoming competitive grant round for 80 commencing medical Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs).