Residential aged care public consultations
Our ongoing public consultations provide an opportunity to connect and engage with a broad range of stakeholders from across the aged care sector.
Each year, we release a consultation paper to outline our pricing principles and approach for developing our pricing advice. The consultation paper highlights key issues and future priorities for residential aged care and residential respite care. We also seek stakeholder feedback on a range of questions.
To ensure our pricing advice reflects the diversity of the aged care sector and the community, we encourage everyone to take part in our consultations. This includes:
- residential and respite aged care participants and their families
- carers and representatives
- providers and aged care workers
- peak bodies
- government departments and agencies
- anyone with an interest in aged care.
Through our consultations, stakeholders have the opportunity to tell us what is important to them in developing our pricing advice.
We use information gathered through our public consultations to develop our annual Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services. The pricing framework is the key policy document that underpins our approach to developing residential aged care pricing and costing advice to government.
Current and upcoming consultations
There are opportunities to have your say and participate in the development of our pricing advice each year.
Our most recent public consultation, the Consultation Paper on the Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services 2026–27 was held from 10 July 2025 to 22 August 2025.
Key themes arising from this consultation will be used to inform the development of the Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services 2026–27 and the Residential Aged Care Pricing Advice 2026–27. A consultation report summarising the feedback we received in response to the consultation paper will be published on our website following agreement from the Minister for Health and Ageing.
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Key publications
Current and past consultations
Visit our engagement hub to find open and past consultations on the Pricing Framework for Australian Residential Aged Care Services.