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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2509 IR–2026
101 pages
PDF
This FOI release (FOI 26-2509 IR) concerns Section 90A Ministerial discretion for community pharmacy approvals under the National Health Act 1953, rather than drugs, vaccines or clinical evaluations. The core document is an internal briefing attachment explaining that the…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2937
8 pages
PDF
The release comprises internal Future Fit program status reports and weekly end-of-week email updates from Department of Health and Aged Care staff, dated mainly between late 2023 and March 2024, with a control coordinator's handover list. The text is heavily garbled by OCR and…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2837
119 pages
PDF
This FOI release concerns the appointment of new members and a special advisor to Australia's Disability Strategy Advisory Council, under the Disability Strategy 2021-2031. It comprises a draft ministerial media release dated February 2026 announcing seven appointments…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2778
19 pages
PDF
This FOI release comprises a medicinal cannabis licence (MC001) issued by the Office of Drug Control under the Narcotic Drugs Act 1967 to Tasmanian Botanics Pty Limited, together with two associated permits: MC001-S01-C05 for cultivation and production, and a manufacture permit…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2738 IR
17 pages
PDF
This FOI release contains draft explanatory documentation for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (Getting the NDIS Back on Track No. 1) (Notice of Impairments) Rules, which establishes procedures for issuing and varying Notices of Impairment to NDIS participants. The…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2830
73 pages
PDF
This release (FOI 26-2830) comprises a 73-page spreadsheet-style extract of Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) service counts for 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025, filtered on the PDVC flag (the Practitioner Data Verification Compliance or Medicare gap-only claim category, as titled).…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2670
1 page
PDF
The release contains a single page (Document 1 of FOI 26-2670), but the extracted text is largely scrambled and fragmentary, with individual words and letters appearing out of order. The only legible fragments are isolated words such as "Department", "Health", "Information" and…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2743
14 pages
PDF
The Department of Health and Aged Care disclosed Senate budget estimates documents regarding Healthscope's operating structure during a period of financial receivership. The documents indicate the department was aware that receivers were exploring potential transfer of some or…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2889
1 page
PDF
This FOI release contains two tables from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing on declared private hospitals. Table 1 shows the number of declared private hospitals on 30 June each year, rising from 549 in 2017-18 to a peak of 648 in 2023-24, before falling to 633 in…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2769
3 pages
PDF
The release contains one document: a confidential email dated 19 January 2026 from a GenesisCare representative to a Department of Health contact, sharing an overview of a new capped out-of-pocket pricing model. The model is described as being piloted at one site for certain…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2847
19 pages
PDF
This Department of Health response letter explains Medicare's telehealth eligibility requirements under the MBS scheme. Generally, patients must have at least one face-to-face consultation with their GP within 12 months before accessing telehealth services. However, specific…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2873
2 pages
PDF
This FOI release comprises two pages of Outlook and records management audit logs for an email sent to the department's ODCRFI Protected mailbox on 22 May 2025 at 8.15am. The records show the email was added to the records system at 10.12am the same day, filed in a container…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2751
30 pages
PDF
The Department of Health released Senate Estimates briefs regarding the Future Fit Program, which contracted Miles Morgan Australia Pty Ltd in December 2021 to strengthen the Meals on Wheels network and implement reforms to Commonwealth Home Support Program (CHSP) meals…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2849
1 page
PDF
The disclosure provides actual funding allocations for three aged care support programs from 2004-05 to 2024-25: the Aged Care Volunteer Visitors Scheme/COVID-19 Community Visitors Scheme, the National Aged Care Advocacy Program (formerly User Rights Advocacy), and Community…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2711 IR
1 page
PDF
This FOI release contains an internal Department of Health email exchange from February 2026 regarding the organisational classification of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQSC) in the departmental organisation chart. A staff member raised a technical…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2702
16 pages
PDF
This FOI release concerns the Bega Medicare Urgent Care Clinic (UCC) in south-eastern NSW, delivered by COORDINARE-South Eastern NSW PHN, and comprises emails from August 2025 to January 2026 plus three exemption records. Correspondence covers the Department's advice on Bega…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2832
42 pages
PDF
This FOI release contains a comparative dataset on Section 90 Approved Pharmacies and PBS providers across Australian states and territories from 2014–2025. The disclosure includes tables showing the distribution of urban and rural pharmacies, PBS-approved GPs, and PBS-approved…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2831
40 pages
PDF
This FOI release (FOI 26-2831, titled Higher Accommodation Supplement) consists of a long schedule of aged care services, run to around 40 pages, with columns for service name and date of effect. The visible entries are almost entirely residential aged care homes, hostels…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2813
5 pages
PDF
This FOI release is a Future Fit project document (Document 1) concerning the Meals on Wheels (MOW) network's Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, used by around 120 CHSP meal providers across 355 outlets serving 41,793 clients in Queensland, New South Wales and…
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HLTH
Health
Released
FOI 26-2660
18 pages
PDF
This FOI release comprises an implementation review report, dated December 2024, submitted by the ACT Health Directorate to the Department of Health and Aged Care under the Medicare Urgent Care Clinics Federation Funding Agreement. The report covers progress at the ACT's Walk-in…