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Exposure draft – Aged Care Bill 2023
This is an exposure draft of the Bill for the new Aged Care Act that was the focus of a public consultation, which ran from 14 December 2023 to 8 March 2024
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Home Care Packages (HCP) Program Assurance Reviews – Unspent funds and pricing transparency on My Aged Care
Key learnings and outcomes of the Home Care Packages (HCP) Program Assurance Reviews on provider self-reported unspent amounts and pricing transparency on My Aged Care.
Home Care Packages (HCP) Program Assurance Reviews webinar – presentation slides
View the presentation slides from the Home Care Packages (HCP) Program Assurance Reviews – Unspent funds and pricing transparency on My Aged Care webinar.
Quarterly Financial Report Help Desks for aged care providers
This help desk reference guide is designed to support approved age care providers to seek assistance from the correct help desks.
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Aged Care Nursing Clinical Placements Program – Torrens University
This video highlights students’ experience in the Aged Care Nursing Clinical Placements Program. The program supports nursing students with high-quality clinical placements in the care and support sector, including aged care, and is open until December 2024.
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Aged Care Nursing Clinical Placements Program – Flinders University
This video highlights students’ experience in the Aged Care Nursing Clinical Placements Program. The program supports nursing students with high-quality clinical placements in the care and support sector, including aged care, and is open until December 2024.
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Update for older people and carers – Aged care Data and Digital Strategy – Webinar recording – 7 November 2023
This webinar provides information to older people and their carers on the Aged Care Data and Digital Strategy, to be launched in December 2023. We are seeking feedback on the strategy which describes a vision and an action plan for data and digital to improve care and wellbeing of older people.
Aged Care Data and Digital Strategy – Webinar presentation slides – 7 November 2023
These webinar slides support the Aged Care Data and Digital Strategy webinar held on 7 November 2023. We provided information to older people and their carers on the Aged Care Data and Digital Strategy, to be launched in 2024.
24/7 registered nurse responsibility exemption change of circumstances form
This form should be used by approved providers of residential facilities with an exemption from the 24/7 RN responsibility to notify the Department of any material changes to the alternative clinical care arrangements they have in place.
Privacy notice – Change of circumstances for exemptions to the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility
This privacy notice explains why we collect information in the notification of a change of circumstance for exemptions from the 24/7 registered nurse responsibility.
Aged Care Data and Digital Strategy - slides
This document provides information to aged care workers, assessors, health clinicians and the broader sector on the Aged Care Data and Digital strategy which is scheduled to be launched in December 2023. We are seeking feedback on the draft strategy from mid-October.
Aged care COVID-19 supports update – Webinar presentation slides – 23 October 2023
In this webinar, we provided the aged care sector with an update on the Australian Government aged care COVID-19 outbreak management supports. We also provided an update on ATAGI advice on the additional vaccination dose, IPC lead nurse evaluation, PPE deployment and grants.
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Aged care COVID-19 supports update – Webinar recording – 23 October 2023
In this webinar recording, we provided the aged care sector with an update on the Australian Government aged care COVID-19 outbreak management supports. We also provided an update on ATAGI advice on the additional vaccination dose, IPC lead nurse evaluation, PPE deployment and grants.
Aged care – Information for local government and councils
This fact sheet explains how government wage rise funding will apply for the different aged care programs run by local government and council providers.
Opportunities for nurses specialising in aged care
A fact sheet about career support available for nurses working in aged care.
Aged care Industry Labour Agreement – Webinar slides
This presentation contains the slides presented at the Aged care Industry Labour Agreement webinar.
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Aged care Industry Labour Agreement – webinar recording
Watch the recording from the Aged care Industry Labour Agreement webinar.
Aged care worker wages – guidance document
This guidance document is for aged care providers on the provision of funding relating to Stage 2 of the Fair Work Commission Aged Care Work Value Case.
Workforce initiatives
This fact sheet is a summary of some of the workforce initiatives available to support aged care providers.
Working in aged care in Australia – Let’s change aged care together
Aged care reforms for aged care workers. Find out more about how reforms will impact you, where you can access supports and how you can get involved.
Employer Engagement webinars – Expanding the aged care workforce through Australian Apprenticeships (Traineeships) – presentation
Slides to accompany the Employer Engagement webinars – Expanding the aged care workforce through Australian Apprenticeships (Traineeships)
Allied health workforce data gap analysis – issues paper
This issues paper outlines the findings and recommendations of the allied health workforce data gap analysis project. This Paper was completed by Health Policy Analysis, who were engaged by the Department of Health and Aged Care in 2021-22.
Budget 2022–23: Workforce – growing and upskilling the workforce to improve care for senior Australians
A Budget 2022–23 fact sheet.
2020 Aged Care Workforce Census
This report presents the findings of the 2020 Aged Care Workforce Census (Census) conducted by the Australian Government Department of Health. It follows four previous similar reports on workforce data in 2003, 2007, 2012 and 2016.
Aged care Industry Labour Agreement
The Australian Government has introduced the Aged Care Industry Labour Agreement (ILA) to streamline the recruitment of qualified direct care workers from overseas to work in aged care.
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