National Aged Care Data Clearinghouse (NACDC)

The National Aged Care Data Clearinghouse (NACDC) is an independent and central repository of national aged care data. It brings together information on people receiving aged care and the services and organisations providing care. It largely contains administrative by-product data from the Department of Health and Aged Care. The NACDC comprises more than 130 tables in relational databases. Most of these relate to government-funded aged care programs operating under the Aged Care Act 1997. The NACDC includes activity data for home support, home care, residential care, transition care, short-term restorative care and aged care eligibility assessments.. It also includes other data sources related to quality indicators for residential aged care, consumer experience in residential aged care and aged care workforce. Most of the activity data is refreshed annually with data from the Department of Health and Aged Care’s Aged Care Data Warehouse. Data for quality indicators are supplied quarterly. Other data sources are updated on a less regular or ad hoc basis.Administrative data on government funded aged care programs, including home support, home care, residential care, transition care, short term restorative care and aged care eligibility assessments. Details available on services, providers, care recipients, episodes of care and assessments. Indicator data collected on a quarterly basis from all approved providers of residential care services for quality indicators defined in the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program Manual, which is available on the Department of Health and Aged Care website at https://www.health.go v.au/resources/collect ions/national-aged care-mandatory quality-indicator program-manual Survey data from the 2017–18 and 2018– 19 Consumer Experience Surveys, collected from a sample of care recipients in residential care facilities as part of the (typically) 3-yearly accreditation site visits. Survey data from the 2022–23 Aged Care Provider Workforce Survey, collected from a sample of government-funded aged care providers.