The ACSQHC works to strengthen safety and quality across Australia's healthcare system, with a focus on developing standards, improving appropriateness of care, and minimising risk of harm

The ACCC contributes to the health and safety of the community through the consideration and management of unacceptable safety risks posed by consumer goods

Digital Health manages and governs the national digital health strategy and the design, delivery and operations of My Health Record

The AIHW provides high quality national health-related data and analysis

ARPANSA contributes to the health and safety of the community by protecting the Australian people and environment from the harmful effects of radiation

Cancer Australia provides national leadership in cancer control and works with the Department of Health and Aged Care to improve the detection, treatment and survival outcomes for people with cancer

DAFF contributes to the protection of: - the health and safety of the Australian community through implementation of activities under the Biosecurity Act 2015, such as the screening of travellers at international airports and seaports (1.8) - public health and safety through the regulation of imported food and the imported food inspection scheme which undertakes food surveillance and recall activities to minimise the risk of adverse health events from food

DCCEEW contributes to the protection of: - the environment from the risks of industrial chemicals, and risks to human health related to exposure to industrial chemicals via the environment, by undertaking environmental risk assessments for the Australian Industrial Chemicals Introduction Scheme, and by providing advice, and receiving advice and recommendations, on risk management (1.8) - human health and safety and the environment from risks resulting from the use of gene technology by providing advice on risk assessment and risk management

The Department of Education contributes to increasing immunisation coverage rates by including childhood immunisation requirements as part of the eligibility criteria for the Child Care Subsidy. Eligibility for benefits is linked to satisfying the requirements for immunisation

DFAT works with the Department of Health and Aged Care to promote regional and global strategic interests as they relate to health

Home Affairs facilitates access to health and support services by determining annual client numbers for the Program of Assistance for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (1.2). Through the effective management and delivery of the skilled and family migration programs and sustainable growth in temporary visa programs, Home Affairs supports a prosperous and inclusive society and advances Australia's economic interests, ensuring visa programs include controls to minimise health risks or costs to the Australian community. These programs include: - Skilled migration visa programs, supplementing Australia's skilled workforce including the health workforce (1.4). - Regional skilled visa programs, directing skilled migrants to regional Australia (1.4). - Visas for General Practitioners, including Better Distribution of Medical Practitioners initiative - a policy initiative implemented by the Departments of Health and Aged Care and Home Affairs, to regulate the supply of overseas trained doctors and direct them towards areas of health workforce shortages (regional, rural and remote areas) in Australia (1.4). - Health requirements, ensuring visa holders do not pose risks to public health (1.4 and 1.8). - Health insurance visa condition, ensuring visa holders maintain adequate health insurance while in Australia (1.4). - Enforceable family sponsorship obligations, ensuring sponsors accept liability for any health costs incurred by visiting families in Australia (1.4). Home Affairs contributes to the protection of human health, or the environment, by maintaining records on the importation of products containing industrial chemicals, and regulations for the import and export of controlled substances and unapproved medicines and medical devices at the border

Home Affairs facilitates access to health and support services by determining annual client numbers for the Program of Assistance for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (1.2). Through the effective management and delivery of the skilled and family migration programs and sustainable growth in temporary visa programs, Home Affairs supports a prosperous and inclusive society and advances Australia's economic interests, ensuring visa programs include controls to minimise health risks or costs to the Australian community. These programs include: - Skilled migration visa programs, supplementing Australia's skilled workforce including the health workforce (1.4). - Regional skilled visa programs, directing skilled migrants to regional Australia (1.4). - Visas for General Practitioners, including Better Distribution of Medical Practitioners initiative - a policy initiative implemented by the Departments of Health and Aged Care and Home Affairs, to regulate the supply of overseas trained doctors and direct them towards areas of health workforce shortages (regional, rural and remote areas) in Australia (1.4). - Health requirements, ensuring visa holders do not pose risks to public health (1.4 and 1.8). - Health insurance visa condition, ensuring visa holders maintain adequate health insurance while in Australia (1.4). - Enforceable family sponsorship obligations, ensuring sponsors accept liability for any health costs incurred by visiting families in Australia (1.4). Home Affairs contributes to the protection of human health, or the environment, by maintaining records on the importation of products containing industrial chemicals, and regulations for the import and export of controlled substances and unapproved medicines and medical devices at the border

Home Affairs facilitates access to health and support services by determining annual client numbers for the Program of Assistance for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (1.2). Through the effective management and delivery of the skilled and family migration programs and sustainable growth in temporary visa programs, Home Affairs supports a prosperous and inclusive society and advances Australia's economic interests, ensuring visa programs include controls to minimise health risks or costs to the Australian community. These programs include: - Skilled migration visa programs, supplementing Australia's skilled workforce including the health workforce (1.4). - Regional skilled visa programs, directing skilled migrants to regional Australia (1.4). - Visas for General Practitioners, including Better Distribution of Medical Practitioners initiative - a policy initiative implemented by the Departments of Health and Aged Care and Home Affairs, to regulate the supply of overseas trained doctors and direct them towards areas of health workforce shortages (regional, rural and remote areas) in Australia (1.4). - Health requirements, ensuring visa holders do not pose risks to public health (1.4 and 1.8). - Health insurance visa condition, ensuring visa holders maintain adequate health insurance while in Australia (1.4). - Enforceable family sponsorship obligations, ensuring sponsors accept liability for any health costs incurred by visiting families in Australia (1.4). Home Affairs contributes to the protection of human health, or the environment, by maintaining records on the importation of products containing industrial chemicals, and regulations for the import and export of controlled substances and unapproved medicines and medical devices at the border

Home Affairs facilitates access to health and support services by determining annual client numbers for the Program of Assistance for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (1.2). Through the effective management and delivery of the skilled and family migration programs and sustainable growth in temporary visa programs, Home Affairs supports a prosperous and inclusive society and advances Australia's economic interests, ensuring visa programs include controls to minimise health risks or costs to the Australian community. These programs include: - Skilled migration visa programs, supplementing Australia's skilled workforce including the health workforce (1.4). - Regional skilled visa programs, directing skilled migrants to regional Australia (1.4). - Visas for General Practitioners, including Better Distribution of Medical Practitioners initiative - a policy initiative implemented by the Departments of Health and Aged Care and Home Affairs, to regulate the supply of overseas trained doctors and direct them towards areas of health workforce shortages (regional, rural and remote areas) in Australia (1.4). - Health requirements, ensuring visa holders do not pose risks to public health (1.4 and 1.8). - Health insurance visa condition, ensuring visa holders maintain adequate health insurance while in Australia (1.4). - Enforceable family sponsorship obligations, ensuring sponsors accept liability for any health costs incurred by visiting families in Australia (1.4). Home Affairs contributes to the protection of human health, or the environment, by maintaining records on the importation of products containing industrial chemicals, and regulations for the import and export of controlled substances and unapproved medicines and medical devices at the border

DISR works with the Department of Health and Aged Care to implement the Biomedical Translation Fund and the Medical Research Future Fund. DISR provides input to a range of health policies to improve the support and regulatory environment for innovation by the health sector (1.1). DISR also works with the Department of Health and Aged Care to support manufacturers of medical products and supported industry and business response to COVID-19 impacts; in particular to establish and implement an onshore sovereign mRNA vaccine manufacturing capability. DISR also works with the Department of Health and Aged Care on supply chain disruptions in the health sector that require domestic industry considerations (1.1). Through the National Measurement Institute, DISR contributes to reducing smoking prevalence in Australia by conducting tobacco plain packaging compliance and enforcement activities

DISR works with the Department of Health and Aged Care to implement the Biomedical Translation Fund and the Medical Research Future Fund. DISR provides input to a range of health policies to improve the support and regulatory environment for innovation by the health sector (1.1). DISR also works with the Department of Health and Aged Care to support manufacturers of medical products and supported industry and business response to COVID-19 impacts; in particular to establish and implement an onshore sovereign mRNA vaccine manufacturing capability. DISR also works with the Department of Health and Aged Care on supply chain disruptions in the health sector that require domestic industry considerations (1.1). Through the National Measurement Institute, DISR contributes to reducing smoking prevalence in Australia by conducting tobacco plain packaging compliance and enforcement activities

Infrastructure co-funds the Australia New Zealand Trauma Registry with the Department of Health and Aged Care to record cases of severe injury, including from road trauma, and improve the treatment and health outcomes of people with injuries

DSS contributes to: - collaborating to design, test and establish the next development phase of the National Disability Data Asset (1.1) - improving access to services and support for people with psychosocial disability through implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)(1.2) - improving access to services and support for young people with mental illness to achieve and maintain sustainable participation in employment and/or vocational education (1.2) - improving the capacity of mainstream services within the health care sector to respond to, and include, people with disability, increasing accessibility and use of mainstream services through the Information Linkages and Capacity Building Mainstream Capacity Building program (1.4). - improving the quality of Australia's health workforce through targeted training on recognising and responding to clients impacted by family, domestic, and sexual violence. DSS fund domestic violence alert training and accredited training for sexual violence responses, targeted to health professionals, and other frontline workers (1.4) - improving access to services and support for children, young people, and their families experiencing disadvantage or who are vulnerable to abuse and neglect. Safe and Supported: The National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children 2021-2031 (Safe and Supported) includes actions to improve early intervention and targeted support, system navigation, and health workforce capability - Safe and Supported sets out Australia's 10-year strategy to make significant and sustained progress in reducing the rates of child abuse and neglect and its intergenerational impacts - Safe and Supported and its Action Plans will focus on priority groups that are experiencing disadvantage and/or vulnerability. Achieving safety and wellbeing outcomes for these children, young people and families will help Safe and Supported achieve its goal (1.2 - 1.6) - increasing immunisation coverage rates, which protect the health and safety of the Australian community by administering the Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Part A to eligible parents. Eligibility for the maximum rate of FTB Part A is linked to satisfying the requirements of age-related immunisation (1.9) - encouraging better collaboration between programs and services to support the development and wellbeing of children to help them thrive across and between life stages, by leading the Early Childhood Targeted Action Plan to support Australia's Disability Strategy 2021-31. The Targeted Action Plan includes an action to strengthen training and resources to primary health care providers to better enable early detection of disability or developmental concerns in young children and appropriate referral pathways, recognising the needs for priority population groups such as First Nations children, their parents, and carers (1.3 and 1.4) - improving coordination and delivery of early childhood development policies, programs and supports across government by leading development of an Early Years Strategy to prioritise collective effort across government (1.3 and 1.5) - establishing a National Early Childhood Program for children with disability or developmental concerns. This program delivers a range of disability-specific information, workshops and supported playgroups for young children aged zero to 8 years with disability or developmental concerns. This program assists in meeting the Closing the Gap Target 4, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children thrive in their early years (1.3).

The Office for Women is leading the development of a National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality which will provide a framework for national gender equality approaches, including in relation to health and wellbeing

Treasury provides financial assistance through National Partnership Payments to state and territory governments as part of the Federal Financial Relations Framework.6 Activities funded through funding agreements include: - Hepatitis C Settlement Fund (1.1) - encouraging more clinical trials in Australia (1.1) - National Health Reform Agreement (1.1) - National Partnership Agreement on COVID-19 Response (1.1) - Community Health and Hospitals Program (1.1) - achieving better health outcomes (1.1) - Centre for National Resilience (1.1) - Proton beam therapy facility (1.1) - Health Infrastructure projects (1.1) - multidisciplinary outreach care (1.1) - reducing stillbirths (1.1) - Health and Medical Research Centre for Launceston (1.1) - Expansion of the Flinders Medical Centre (1.1) - Bentley Hospital Surgicentre (1.1) - adult mental health centres (1.2) - National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement - Bilateral schedules (1.2) - improving trachoma control services for Indigenous Australians (1.3) - addressing blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections in the Torres Strait (1.3) - Rheumatic Fever Strategy (1.3) - Northern Territory remote Aboriginal investment - health component (1.3) - Expansion of the John Flynn Prevocational Doctor Program (1.4) - National Bowel Cancer Screening Program - participant follow-up function (1.5) - Lymphoedema garments and allied health therapy programs (1.5) - National Coronial Information System (1.5) - Western Australian comprehensive cancer centre (1.5) - Comprehensive Cancer Centres (1.5) - Surge Capacity for BreastScreen Australia (1.5) - Child Development Unit at Campbelltown Hospital (1.5) - World-class Newborn Bloodspot Screening Program (1.5) - South Australia Genomics Lab (1.5) - Comprehensive palliative care in aged care (1.6) - Hummingbird House (1.6) - Supporting Palliative Care in Launceston (1.6) - Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (1.6) - Royal Darwin Hospital - equipped, prepared and ready (1.8) - OzFoodNet (1.8) - Mosquito Control in the Torres Strait Protected Zone (1.8) - management of Torres Strait/Papua New Guinea cross border health issues (1.8) - vaccine-preventable diseases surveillance (1.8) - mosquito control in Tennant Creek (1.8) - access to HIV treatment (1.8) - essential vaccines (1.9).

Treasury provides financial assistance through National Partnership Payments to state and territory governments as part of the Federal Financial Relations Framework.6 Activities funded through funding agreements include: - Hepatitis C Settlement Fund (1.1) - encouraging more clinical trials in Australia (1.1) - National Health Reform Agreement (1.1) - National Partnership Agreement on COVID-19 Response (1.1) - Community Health and Hospitals Program (1.1) - achieving better health outcomes (1.1) - Centre for National Resilience (1.1) - Proton beam therapy facility (1.1) - Health Infrastructure projects (1.1) - multidisciplinary outreach care (1.1) - reducing stillbirths (1.1) - Health and Medical Research Centre for Launceston (1.1) - Expansion of the Flinders Medical Centre (1.1) - Bentley Hospital Surgicentre (1.1) - adult mental health centres (1.2) - National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement - Bilateral schedules (1.2) - improving trachoma control services for Indigenous Australians (1.3) - addressing blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections in the Torres Strait (1.3) - Rheumatic Fever Strategy (1.3) - Northern Territory remote Aboriginal investment - health component (1.3) - Expansion of the John Flynn Prevocational Doctor Program (1.4) - National Bowel Cancer Screening Program - participant follow-up function (1.5) - Lymphoedema garments and allied health therapy programs (1.5) - National Coronial Information System (1.5) - Western Australian comprehensive cancer centre (1.5) - Comprehensive Cancer Centres (1.5) - Surge Capacity for BreastScreen Australia (1.5) - Child Development Unit at Campbelltown Hospital (1.5) - World-class Newborn Bloodspot Screening Program (1.5) - South Australia Genomics Lab (1.5) - Comprehensive palliative care in aged care (1.6) - Hummingbird House (1.6) - Supporting Palliative Care in Launceston (1.6) - Medicare Urgent Care Clinics (1.6) - Royal Darwin Hospital - equipped, prepared and ready (1.8) - OzFoodNet (1.8) - Mosquito Control in the Torres Strait Protected Zone (1.8) - management of Torres Strait/Papua New Guinea cross border health issues (1.8) - vaccine-preventable diseases surveillance (1.8) - mosquito control in Tennant Creek (1.8) - access to HIV treatment (1.8) - essential vaccines (1.9).

FSANZ contributes to the protection of: - public health and safety by developing food standards for implementation by the states and territories. FSANZ also coordinates national food surveillance and recall activities to minimise the risk of adverse health events from food (1.5) - human health from the risks of industrial chemicals related to food by providing and receiving advice (1.8).

IHACPA determines the National Efficient Price for public hospital services as the basis for Activity Based Funding and the National Efficient Cost for those public hospital services under block funding arrangements (1.1).

The NBA works to save and improve Australian lives through a world-class blood supply that is safe, secure, affordable and well-managed (1.1).

The NHFB is responsible for the transparent and efficient administration of Commonwealth, state and territory funding of public hospital services. This includes the administration of payments to and from the National Health Funding Pool to Local Hospital Networks and other parties in accordance with the National Health Reform Agreement. Commonwealth funding is provided by Treasury (1.1).

NHMRC develops evidence-based health advice for the Australian community, health professionals and governments, and provides advice on ethical practice in health care and in the conduct of health and medical research, and administers research grant programs on behalf of the Department of Health and Aged Care (1.1). NHMRC contributes to the protection of human health from the risks of industrial chemicals related to drinking water by providing and receiving advice (1.8).

The NIAA works closely with the Department of Health and Aged Care to ensure the effectiveness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health funding, and that mainstream policy, programs and services deliver benefits to First Nations people. NIAA also provides grants for health, wellbeing and resilience projects; substance use treatment and harm minimisation projects; and projects aimed at combatting petrol sniffing and the use of other volatile substances (1.3).

The NMHC provides independent policy advice and evidence on ways to improve Australia's mental health and suicide prevention system, and acts as a catalyst for change to achieve those improvements (1.2).

The OTA works to maximise organ and tissue donation for transplantation by increasing the capacity within the health system, and raising community awareness and stakeholder engagement in support of donation (1.1).

SWA contributes to the protection of human health from the risks of industrial chemicals related to the health of workers by providing advice, and receiving advice and recommendations (1.8).

Services Australia contributes to: - ensuring that Australia's health system is better equipped to meet current and future health needs by administering the Australian Organ Donor Register (1.1) - increasing immunisation coverage rates, protecting the health and safety of the Australian community by administering the Australian Immunisation Register on behalf of the Department of Health and Aged Care (1.9). Services Australia administers payments and services to eligible recipients under the following programs/initiatives administered by the Department of Health and Aged Care: - Indigenous access to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (1.3) - Workforce Incentive Program (1.4) - Rural Procedural Grants Program (1.4) - Scaling of Rural Workforce Program (1.4) - Health Care Homes Program (1.6 and 1.7) - Practice Incentive Program payments to general practices, general practitioners and Indigenous health services (1.7) - Medical indemnity activities, including indemnity for eligible midwives (1.7) - COVID-19 Vaccine Claims Scheme (1.7).

Services Australia contributes to: - ensuring that Australia's health system is better equipped to meet current and future health needs by administering the Australian Organ Donor Register (1.1) - increasing immunisation coverage rates, protecting the health and safety of the Australian community by administering the Australian Immunisation Register on behalf of the Department of Health and Aged Care (1.9). Services Australia administers payments and services to eligible recipients under the following programs/initiatives administered by the Department of Health and Aged Care: - Indigenous access to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (1.3) - Workforce Incentive Program (1.4) - Rural Procedural Grants Program (1.4) - Scaling of Rural Workforce Program (1.4) - Health Care Homes Program (1.6 and 1.7) - Practice Incentive Program payments to general practices, general practitioners and Indigenous health services (1.7) - Medical indemnity activities, including indemnity for eligible midwives (1.7) - COVID-19 Vaccine Claims Scheme (1.7).