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HealthConsult has been contracted by the Department of Health to develop and test the assessment, classification and funding (ACF) model to underpin the support at home care program.  

HealthConsult is responsible for recruiting a representative sample of aged care at home providers to participate in a prospective data collection that will gather: cost, activity, workforce and assessment data to inform development of the classification systems and funding models.  Any data provided to HealthConsult will be securely held, and not released to any other party, including the Department, in a way that would enable identification of the source.

To inform the selection of aged care providers to participate in the prospective data collection, HealthConsult is conducting a questionnaire to assess the type and range of home care services that are provided by interested aged care providers, along with the capability of providers to collect, extract and provide robust data to support development of the ACF model.

The questionnaire seeks information, at a high level, about the scope of services provided, operating costs and information on the provision of finance and payroll functions within your organisation.  Assessment of the questionnaire will ensure that sites selected to participate in the prospective data collection can reasonably expect to successfully provide the data requested and have an adequate level of support provided to them.

Process

HealthConsult will review all completed questionnaires with a view to recruit up to 80 aged care at home providers for the prospective data collection. These providers will be representative of the sector, and can be reasonably expected to successfully generate the data required to inform the development of the classification systems and funding models.

Survey Completion Guidelines

SurveyMonkey is the platform being used to collect the online survey data.  Due to their data storage arrangements, there is a chance that some of the data may be stored overseas.  The regulatory regimes governing data access and use in other countries may not be the same as those that are in place in Australia.  If you have any questions, please direct them to HealthConsult.

The questionnaire contains 27 questions.  The survey can be completed online  or if you prefer by telephone interview by contacting HealthConsult.  Some questions may require you to source information.

Please be assured that all the data you provide will be treated as strictly confidential.

If you have any questions, or if you need help to complete the questionnaire please contact:

Caroline Petrovski

Manager, HealthConsult

E: caroline.petrovski@healthconsult.com.au

P: 02 9261 3707

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* 1. What is the name of your organisation?

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* 2. What are the physical address details of the principal location at which your services are delivered (or the delivery of services is managed from)?

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* 3. In which of the following  States/Territories do you provide aged care at home services? Select all that are relevant

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* 4. In which of the following States/Territories and Aged Care Planning Regions (ACPR) do you provide aged care at home services?

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* 5. In which geographic areas do you deliver your services? Select all that are relevant 

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* 6. What is the name, position and contact details of the person who can be contacted during the process?

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* 7. What type of entity is your organisation?

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* 8. Please indicate whether your organisation currently provides any of  the following  programs/services  (please tick any that are relevant):

  Yes
Commonwealth Home Support Services (CHSP)
Home Care Packages (HCP)
Residential Aged Care (RAC)
National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
Department of Veteran's Affairs (DVA)
Transition Care Program (TCP)
Short-Term Restorative Care (STRC)
Independent Living/congregate care (IL)
Other

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* 9. How many individual clients, in the 2019/20 financial year, did you have? (Please also indicate zero where appropriate)

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* 10. How many services, in the 2019/20 financial year, did you provide to?

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* 11. What proportion (roughly) of your CHSP and/or HCP clients are in receipt of three or more aged care at home service types OR utilise in excess of $3,000 per year of government funded services? (Please enter as a percentage)

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* 12. How many staff are employed by your organisation?

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* 13. Please tell us what service types you currently offer. Please tick/select all that apply.

  Yes No NA
Allied health and therapy
Domestic assistance - cleaning and household tasks
Meal preparation
Home maintenance
Light gardening
Goods, equipment and assistive technology
Capital purchases
Home modifications
Meals
Meal preparation
Other food services
Nursing
Personal care
Social support – individual
Social support – group
Specialised support group
Transport
Assistance with care and housing
In-home respite (day-time)
In-home respite (overnight)
Centre-based respite
Flexible respite
Cottage respite
Care management
Package management

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* 14. Please indicate whether your information systems provide the ability to access and extract data on the following aspects of service provision for the previous six months:

  Yes No NA
Individual consumers each service was provided to (HCP)
Individual consumers each service was provided to (CHSP)
Service type provided (HCP)
Service type provided (CHSP)
Service delivery mode (e.g. individual, group, telehealth) (HCP)
Service delivery mode (e.g. individual, group, telehealth) (CHSP)
Frequency of service (HCP)
Frequency of service (CHSP)
Duration of services provided (HCP)
Duration of services provided (CHSP)
Staff type / classification providing each service type (HCP)
Staff type / classification providing each service type (CHSP)

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* 15. Does your organisation currently provide services to special needs groups, and if so roughly what proportion (% of total) of your consumers would be classified as: (please note the groups are not necessarily mutually exclusive)

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* 16. Please provide the following information in relation to the finance function for your organisation:

Within your organisation is the finance function carried out internally, or is this function outsourced?

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* 17. If finance is an internal function, is your accounting team located in the same location as your invited (i.e. in target geographical areas for study) service, or a central location?

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* 18. Can the financial data for your organisation be readily and easily accessed?

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* 19. What general ledger system does your organisation use?

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* 20. Do you have consumer level financial records for your HCP consumers?

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* 21. In regards to  extracting data from your organisations finance function, is there anything else you'd like to tell us?

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* 22. Please provide the following information in relation to the payroll function for your organisation:

Within your organisation is the payroll function carried out internally, or is this function outsourced?

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* 23. If payroll is an internal function, is your payroll department located in the same location as your invited (i.e. in target geographical areas for study) service, or a central location?

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* 24. Can the payroll data for your organisation be easily accessed?

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* 25. What payroll system does your organisation use?

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* 26. In regards to extracting data from your organisations payroll function, is there anything else you'd like to tell us?

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* 27. What is the estimated annual operating expenditure for your organisation?

Thank you for your time in completing this survey - the HealthConsult team will be in touch shortly.
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