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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-3077
30 pages
PDF
The release comprises weekly end-of-week status update emails for a Department of Health and Aged Care project on the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP), variously referred to in the text as CTFP or CTPP, covering roughly December 2023 to July 2024. The updates track a…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2939–2026
101 pages
PDF
This FOI release contains an information request template and operational guidance for NSW Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (UCCs). The Department of Health requested workforce data and four-week roster details from each commissioned UCC, including headcount, FTE, and clinician…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2883
10 pages
PDF
The release comprises two pre-budget submissions from ForHealth, a general practice and urgent care provider, to the Minister for Health and Aged Care, for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 Budgets. Both argue for expanding the Bulk Billing Incentive (BBI) and Medicare Urgent Care Clinic…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2958–2026
13 pages
PDF
This FOI release (26-2958) comprises four documents from 2023 concerning the Future Fit program and the proposed Meals on Wheels (MoW) Feasibility Study under the Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP). It includes an internal email from Assistant Secretary Russell Herald…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2965
5 pages
PDF
The release comprises a short email chain from February 2024 between Department of Health officials, including Russell Herald, and representatives of Meals on Wheels (MoW) providers concerning the "Future Fit" program. The chain begins with a confidential proposal from a MoW…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2797–2026
67 pages
PDF
The PBAC (Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee) did not recommend listing pembrolizumab (Keytruda) on the PBS for unresectable advanced and metastatic cancers at its July 2025 meeting. The document outlines the formal PBAC outcome notification process, indicating that…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-3189
90 pages
PDF
The release comprises the Carer Gateway Service Provider Operating Manual, a grant-administration guide issued under the Integrated Carer Support Service. The document is version 1 (December 2019), updated in April 2020 and March 2021, and the excerpt is drawn from roughly 90…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-3004
2 pages
PDF
This FOI release contains two near-identical letters from the then Minister for Aged Care, Anika Wells, to Dennis Stark, CEO of Mitchell's Quality Foods, which trades as Lite n' Easy. The first is dated 6 January 2023 and the second, a revised version, is dated 2 February 2023.…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-3007–2026
190 pages
PDF
This FOI disclosure contains a grant application for the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing's Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain Clinic (EPPC) expansion program. The Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network (HNECC PHN) sought funding to establish a new…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2915
201 pages
PDF
The release (FOI 26-2915, dated 19 June 2026) consists of Document 1, the Aged Care Assessment Manual version 8.2, published 23 March 2026 and running to 435 pages. It sets out the Aged Care Act 2024 framework for needs assessment, covering My Aged Care entry, referral and…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-3147
37 pages
PDF
The release comprises a COVID-19 vaccine rollout data pack from the Australian Immunisation Register, with data as at 25 October 2023 and supplementary pages carrying later data (to 31 December 2025). It reports 68.9 million total doses administered, with 4.5 million people aged…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-3154–2026
8 pages
PDF
The Department of Health and Aged Care disclosed departmental briefings on artificial intelligence use in healthcare, specifically addressing AI scribes in general practice settings. Documents from October 2025 and February 2026 estimates hearings outline that rapid uptake of…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26 2990–2026
98 pages
PDF
The Department of Health's Future Fit project, established in 2021, aimed to address viability concerns within the Meals on Wheels (MoW) network under the new Support at Home aged care program. The initiative sought to develop a new funding model recognizing MoW's social value…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2987–2026
23 pages
PDF
This ministerial submission approved a $366.4 million grant program over three financial years (2025-26 to 2027-28) to establish 50 additional Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (UCCs) through Primary Health Networks under a closed, non-competitive selection process. The grant was…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2898–2026
18 pages
PDF
This FOI disclosure concerns the establishment of an NDIS Sustainability Taskforce within the Department of Health and Aged Care for the 2026-27 budget period. The taskforce was to be led by an SES B2 officer from a central agency, reporting through the Health Secretary to…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2855–2026
95 pages
PDF
This FOI release contains email correspondence from January 2026 between Department of Health officials and a Medical Services Manager at Ramsay Health Care's Greenslopes Private Hospital regarding the Prevocational Hospital Sojourn (PHS) program. Department staff initiated…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2967–2026
1 page
PDF
This document is a letter from the Future Fit Collective responding to a Department of Health and Aged Care inquiry regarding a copyright infringement claim. The organization states that after being notified of alleged copyright infringement by entity 847G, it immediately…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2910–2026
8 pages
PDF
This FOI release contains records from the Disability Reform Ministerial Council (DRMC) meeting of 6 June 2025, documenting ministerial decisions and actions on disability policy governance. The documents show government and state/territory coordination on the 2024 DRMC Annual…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-3075
1 page
PDF
This FOI release is a single data table and notes from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, extracted on 12 May 2026, on exemptions to the Section 19AB 10-year moratorium on new provider-practice arrangements in aged care. It counts provider-practices granted…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-3062
33 pages
PDF
This FOI release concerns a request for Ministerial discretion under subsection 90A(2) of the National Health Act 1953 to approve a pharmacist to supply Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme medicines at premises in Davidson, NSW (reference DP500). The documents include an…