A health technology assessment (HTA) involves a range of processes and mechanisms that use scientific evidence to assess health technologies for their quality, safety, efficacy, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. This report of the HTA review makes 50 recommendations across a range of areas, including improving access to new health technologies, tackling inequity, and making HTA processes...

The National Health and Climate Strategy sets out a whole-of-government plan for achieving healthy, climate-resilient communities and a sustainable, resilient, high-quality, net zero health system. This initial implementation plan presents the milestones for the actions prioritised for delivery in 2024 and foreshadows the activities to deliver the remaining actions in 2025 and beyond.

This paper provides the key findings from the 2023 aged care provider workforce survey which provides information on the size, composition and characteristics of the aged care workforce in residential aged care and in-home care settings. At March 2023, there were an estimated 43,000 vacancies in directly employed nursing, personal care and clinical care manager...

This joint statement with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Department of Health and Aged Care has been prepared to help make health and medical research more inclusive. The purpose of the statement is to improve health outcomes by improving knowledge of research gaps related to historical underrepresentation of sex, gender...

Living evidence syntheses are continually updated, systematically appraised summaries of research evidence. These may include living systematic reviews, living evidence briefs or living evidence‐based guidelines. Australia has implemented living evidence for several key clinical concerns; however, the routine implementation of living evidence in health policy is nascent and knowledge gaps remain on how to best...