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The National Health Funding Body (NHFB) participates in the annual Australian Public Service (APS) employee census. Results for this year are contained in the NHFB Highlights Report.For more information on the NHFB 2024 Employee Census Action Plan, download it here: nhfb_employee_census_action_plan_-_november_2024.pdf (pdf, 214.05 KB)

The National Health Funding Body is wholly committed to upholding the Commonwealth Child Safe Framework to ensure children are safe in all circumstances.

In August 2011, the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) agreed to major changes in how public hospitals were to be funded by Commonwealth, State and Territory governments, including the move from block grants to an ‘activity-based’ funding system (ABF). These changes included establishing the Administrator of the National Health Funding Pool (the Administrator) and the National Health Funding Body (NHFB) to improve transparency of public hospital funding arrangements. The…

The NHFB Corporate Plan 2024-25 sets our direction for the next four years and covers the activities we will undertake to achieve our purpose.  

Clause B102 of the National Health Reform Agreement requires the Administrator to publish details of Commonwealth, State and Territory compliance with the data requirements specified in the Administrator's Data Plan.

This document is the Administrator's policy for publishing details of Commonwealth, State and Territory compliance with the data requirements of the Administrator's Three Year Data Plan.

This document sets out the The Administrator's determination of the minimum level of data required from jurisdictions and includes: three_year_data_plan_file_specifications_for_data_submission_2024-25.pdf (pdf, 1.11 MB)  This document sets out the technical details of the data to be provided to the Administrator by jurisdictions in accordance with the Administrator’s Three-Year Data Plan 2024-25 to 2026-27. file_specification_for_submission_b_2024…

To comply with section 15(3) of the Public Service Act 1999 (the Act), the National Health Funding Body (NHFB) has established procedures for determining whether a current, or former, NHFB employee has breached the Australian Public Service (APS) Code of Conduct. We have also established procedures for determining sanctions. These procedures are published to comply with section 15(7) of the Act.

Clause B102 of the National Health Reform Agreement requires the Administrator to publish details of Commonwealth, State and Territory compliance with the data requirements specified in the Administrator's Data Plan.

Under the Addendum, all Parties agreed, at a minimum, to maintain levels of funding for public hospital services through the Pool for 2020-21 to 2024-25 at not less than the level of funding for 2018-19, while having regard to new, appropriate models of care that may change the setting in which care is delivered (A102), hereafter referred to as Maintenance of Effort.