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Queensland Health
Services > Home and Community Care (HACC)

Minimum Data Set (MDS)

Overview

The Home and Community Care (HACC) Program provides services such as domestic assistance, personal care as well as professional allied health care and nursing services. These services provide support to Australians, younger people with a disability and their carers to be more independent at home and in the community and to reduce the potential or inappropriate need for admission to residential care.

HACC Minimum Data Set

The HACC Minimum Data Set (MDS) is a collection of data about HACC clients (such as their age and living arrangements) and the amount and types of assistance being provided to them through the HACC Program.

Service Providers who receive HACC funding for services delivered to the frail aged, younger people with disability or their carers are required to collect, report data and submitted electronically to the HACC MDS National Data Repository (NDR) four times a year.

The HACC MDS is a valuable source of data which is used by the Australian government, Queensland government and service providers for:

Objectives

The objectives are to:

  1. Assist HACC service providers to provide high quality services to their clients by facilitating improvements in the internal management of HACC funded service delivery.
  2. To facilitate consistency and comparability between HACC data and other aged community care and health data collections.
  3. To provide HACC program managers with a tool to access data required for policy development, strategic planning and performance monitoring against agreed output/outcome criteria.

Training

MDS software

The Australian government provides free software to help service providers prepare their MDS data submissions.

NEF user manual

The NEF user manual (PDF, 2.1 MB) has information to on how to install NEF more than once on the same computer.  This is usually done for agencies reporting with more than one service provider identification number at a time.

If you are unable to downloading any of the these files you may email haccmds@health.qov.au to arrange a copy to be sent to you.

Further information

More information about Home and Community Care (HACC) Minimum Data Set (MDS) can be found on the Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing HACC publication web site.

MDS National Contact Details (Submissions and NEF software)
MDS National HELPDESK
Phone: 1800 638 427
Email: mdssupport@haccmds.gov.au

MDS Data Transmission
Email: mdssubmission@haccmds.gov.au

Queensland HACC office
Phone: (07) 3006 8843
Email:  qldhaccmds@communities.qld.gov.au

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MDS manual

NEF manual

Training


Last Updated: 10 May 2011
Last Reviewed: 10 May 2011