Submission: Department of Health and Aged Care Residential Care Service List Consultation Discussion Paper (December 2024)

This submission explains why current proposals to amend the residential care and services list do not address the state of allied health service provision in residential care.

In particular we take issue with the retention of a category of care that will continue the option for providers to simply refer residents to external services without having to pay for them, or even for transport to the appointment.

As with our recent submission on the Support at Home service list, AHPA also outlines how proposed terminology and classifications for allied health are unclear or simply wrong, and that the Discussion Paper’s proposed list is inconsistent with Government commitments to pay 100% of residents’ clinical care costs.

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