Residential aged care services, including permanent care and respite care Home Care Packages delivered on a Consumer Directed Care basis Flexible Care where a person is receiving care’ or care’; this ‘residential ‘home includes services provided through Transition Care, Innovative Care or Multi-purpose services (MPS) Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Programme (NATSIFACP) This includes the care recipient might: have a current approval from an Aged Care Assessment Team for residential care services but is not in an Australian Government subsidised residential care place be a continuing care recipient who is provided residential care under the fees and payment provisions of the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 not be named or identifiable no longer be receiving services from the service provider to which the information relates, or be deceased. Note: On 1 July 2015, CHSP consolidated a number of entry-level programmes; refer to Chapter 10. The CHSP does not apply to HACC services in Western Australia or Victoria. Determining that the information relates to a responsibility of an approved provider as defined in Chapter 4 of the Act or the Aged Care Principles or a Comprehensive Agreement. Responsibilities of approved providers include: quality of care provided to care recipients (this includes specified care and services) user rights for the people for whom the care is provided (this includes the Charter of Rights and Responsibilities in both residential and home care), and accountability for the care that is provided and the basic suitability of their key personnel (this includes obligations in respect to compulsory reporting and recordkeeping). Responsibilities of Australian Government subsidised aged care programmes under a Comprehensive Grant Agreement are outlined in Chapter 10 of these Guidelines. They generally relate to the same responsibilities outlined above. How to confirm in-scope information Officers are able to confirm the information has been classified correctly as in-scope by referring to the information held on the department’s official information management systems. These have a current list of all service providers, the residential, home care or flexible services they are approved to provide and, residential and Home Care Package services, a list of past and present care recipients of each service.
Residential aged care services, including permanent care and respite care Home Care Packages delivered on a Consumer Directed Care basis Flexible Care where a person is receiving ‘residential care’ or ‘home care’; this includes services provided through Transition Care, Innovative Care or Multi-purpose services (MPS) Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Programme (NATSIFACP) This includes the care recipient might: have a current approval from an Aged Care Assessment Team for residential care services but is not in an Australian Government subsidised residential care place be a continuing care recipient who is provided residential care under the fees and payment provisions of the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 not be named or identifiable no longer be receiving services from the service provider to which the information relates, or be deceased. Note: On 1 July 2015, CHSP consolidated a number of entry-level programmes; refer to Chapter 10. The CHSP does not apply to HACC services in Western Australia or Victoria. Determining that the information relates to a responsibility of an approved provider as defined in Chapter 4 of the Act or the Aged Care Principles or a Comprehensive Agreement. Responsibilities of approved providers include: quality of care provided to care recipients (this includes specified care and services) user rights for the people for whom the care is provided (this includes the Charter of Rights and Responsibilities in both residential and home care), and accountability for the care that is provided and the basic suitability of their key personnel (this includes obligations in respect to compulsory reporting and recordkeeping). Responsibilities of Australian Government subsidised aged care programmes under a Comprehensive Grant Agreement are outlined in Chapter 10 of these Guidelines. They generally relate to the same responsibilities outlined above. How to confirm in-scope information Officers are able to confirm the information has been classified correctly as in-scope by referring to the information held on the department’s official information management systems. These have a current list of all service providers, the residential, home care or flexible services they are approved to provide and, residential and Home Care Package services, a list of past and present care recipients of each service.
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