MAC News
CHSP Service Provider Update: Updating service availability in the My Aged Care Provider Portal
It is critically important Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) providers maintain their service information in the My Aged Care Provider Portal to ensure accurate referrals. This includes service availability and services provided. Providers must either accept...
Doctors must now prescribe drugs using their chemical name, not brand names. That’s good news for patients
From today (February 1), when you receive a prescription in Australia, it will list the name of the medication’s active ingredient rather than the brand name. So, for example, instead of receiving a prescription for Ventolin, your script will say “salbutamol”.
This national legislation change, called active ingredient prescribing, is long overdue for Australian health care.
Using the name of the drug — instead of the brand name, of which there are often many — will simplify how we talk about and use medications.
This could have a range of benefits, including fewer medication errors by both doctors and patients.
CHSP Digital Landing Page – reablement resources
Following consultation with the aged care sector, the Department of Health has designed a suite of products for Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) organisations to better understand, embed, and to practically apply wellness and reablement into CHSP service...
Data upload deadline for CHSP ‘grandfathered clients’ extended to 26 March 2021
Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) providers now have an extra 8 weeks to upload and submit grandfathered client data into the My Aged Care provider portal. The new deadline is 11.59pm Friday 26 March 2021. Previously the portal was set to close on Friday...
Improved Payment Arrangements Budget Measure – Department of Health
On 10 December 2020, the Government passed Bill 1 Aged Care Legislation Amendment (Improved Home Care Payment Administration No. 1) Bill 2020. Bill 1 will support the commencement of Phase 1 of the Improved Payment Arrangements measure announced by the Government in...
The viral ‘Wellerman’ sea shanty is also a window into the remarkable cross-cultural whaling history of Aotearoa New Zealand
GettyImages Kate Stevens, University of Waikato In a year of surprises, one of the more pleasant was the recent runaway viral popularity of 19th century sea shanties on TikTok. A collaborative global response to pandemic isolation, it saw singers and musicians...
Office for Ageing Well Community Grants Open
I am writing to let you know that Office for Ageing Well Community Grants 2020-21 are open. The grants are the first since we released South Australia’s Plan for Ageing Well 2020-25 last year. Our grants will fund initiatives reflecting the South Australian...
Magic, culture and stalactites: how Aboriginal perspectives are transforming archaeological histories
New collaborative work at an Aboriginal cave in eastern Victoria, published today, shows the stark difference between contemporary archaeological research and that conducted in the 1970s.
From curried wombat to rendang and doro wat: a brief history of curry in Australia
Andy Hay/Unsplash Frieda Moran, University of Tasmania In a new series, our writers explore how food shaped Australian history – and who we are today. Curry occupies a grey area in Australia: sometimes exotic and other, sometimes ordinary, often a bit of both....
Asian countries do aged care differently. Here’s what we can learn from them
Shutterstock Angelique Chan, National University of Singapore This article is part of our series on aged care. You can read the other articles in the series here. Unlike in Western countries like Australia, traditional Asian cultures place a heavy emphasis on filial...