Resources

This Australian Bureau of Statistics statistical release presents data from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey on health conditions, wellbeing and health risk factors in Australia.

This webpage by the Primary Health Network of Hunter New England and Central Coast provides a digital toolkit for change management support through digital health technologies and systems for Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations at different levels of digital health readiness. 

This website represents the Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peak Organisations, a national partnership body of Indigenous-led organisations working with governments to advance self-determination, shared decision-making and policy outcomes that improve health, wellbeing and justice for First Nations peoples

This guideline by Queensland health is designed as a quick reference tool to support healthcare staff in delivering safe, clinically and culturally responsive care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.

This fact sheet from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing provides an overview of the types of restrictive practices including, chemical restraint, environmental restraint, mechanical restraint, physical restraint and seclusion within residential care settings. 

This webpage from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing details  how to make a whistleblower disclosure under the new Aged Care Act 2024. 

This page explains how the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission is bound by Australian privacy and “protected information” laws, meaning it collects, uses and protects personal information only where it’s lawful and necessary to carry out its regulatory functions.

This web page explains how the Commission regulates aged care using a rights-based approach, with older people’s dignity, choice and safety at the centre. 

This webpage from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission describes the Aged Care Code of Conduct that guides how people must behave when they deliver funded aged care services. It has 8 ‘elements’ that set out required behaviours. The page contains a video to guide providers and workers. 

The web page from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission explains how older people, families, carers and workers can raise concerns or make a complaint about an aged care provider, worker or responsible person with the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, including options to complain openly, confidentially or anonymously.