Improve the delivery of aged care services and respond to the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.
The Government will provide $827.2 million over 5 years from 2022-23 to continue to improve the delivery of aged care services and respond to the Final Report of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. Funding includes:
* $487.0 million over 4 years from 2023-24 (and $133.6 million ongoing) to extend, and make ongoing, the Disability Support for Older Australians Program
* $112.0 million over 4 years from 2023-24 to introduce a new General Practice in Aged Care incentive payment to improve general practitioner attendance and continuity of care in residential aged care homes, and to reduce avoidable hospitalisations
* $98.7 million over two years from 2023-24 for a new Market Adjustment Program and to provide business advisory services to improve the viability of the residential aged care sector
* $81.9 million over 3 years from 2023-24 to develop and implement a new Aged Care Act to support aged care sector reform and undertake discovery and design of associated ICT system changes
* $41.3 million over 4 years from 2023-24 (including $11.9 million in capital funding from their residential aged care provider
* $6.3 million over 5 years from 2022-23 for the Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority to deliver its functions in line with amendments to the Aged Care Act The Government will introduce a new hoteling supplement of $10.80 per resident per day by separating out the existing hoteling component of the Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN-ACC) price (the $10 Basic Daily Fee Supplement) starting 1 July 2023. The Government will also adjust the care minute allocations within the AN-ACC funding model from 1 October 2023 to better align care minutes with resident needs. This measure will be offset by redirecting funding from the 2023-24 Budget measure titled Improving the Investment in Aged Care. This measure extends the 2022-23 October Budget measure titled Implementing Aged Care Reform. Health and Aged Care |