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Submission to the Department of Health – streamlined consumer assessment for aged care

Last updated 30 May 2019

Summary

Date: 11 February 2019

The RACGP provided comment to the Department of Health consultation on the proposed changes to the current aged care assessment model. RACGP feedback outlined the need to:

enhance GP referrals to My Aged Care
provide opportunities for GPs to review support plans
employ healthcare professionals with aged care training in the aged care national assessment workforce.

Read the submission

Submission to DoH - streamlined consumer assessment for aged care (PDF 201 KB)

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