AGED CARE REFORMS
& TRANSITION NEWS
Webinar recording: Provider Regulation – Accountability Driving Performance
On Tuesday 18 June, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission held a webinar on Provider regulation – accountability driving performance. This webinar discussed the new regulatory strategy, and touched on topics such as shifting focus from service level to provider level when reducing risk of harm, integrated view of risk, how the new regulatory strategy will look like in practice, and a Q&A session.
Consultation: Quality Indicators for In-Home Aged Care
Public consultation is now available for the expanded National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program. The addition of three new Quality Indicators as well as inclusion of in-home aged care will not begin before 1 July 2026, and will only apply to providers under the new Support at Home program. Consultation closes on 9 July.
Changes to 24/7 Registered Nurse Reporting from 1 July
There will be changes to the monthly 24/7 registered nurse (RN) reporting in the Government Provider Management System (GPMS), to come into effect from 1 July. Further information will be collected about what arrangements are in place when an RN is not available, which will support monitoring and compliance activities about the 24/7 RN responsibility.
Allocation of Places to People Starts July 2025
Once the new Aged Care Act is implemented, all residential aged care providers will no longer hold an allocation of residential places (bed licenses). Transitioning to the new arrangements will be different for each provider, depending on whether the provider is bed-ready who do not have places allocated yet, or who are not yet bed-ready, and need places before July 2025. Providers need to write off any bed licenses on balance sheets before the new arrangements begin.
IHACPA Aged Care Costing Information
The Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority (IHACPA) undertakes cost collections to better understand what costs are involved in delivering aged care services. The cost and activity data collected informs the IHACPA’s pricing advice for aged care services to the Australian Government as part of the reforms. Input is welcomed from all aged care providers in the residential and in-home aged care sector; ways on how to get involved can be found at their website.
