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The 2017-18 Administrator of the National Health Funding Pool Annual Report details a combined Financial Statement of the National Health Funding Pool accounts, and a Financial Statement for each State and Territory State Pool Account audited by the respective Auditor–General. The report also includes the reporting required under section 241(2) of the Act on national health reform funding and payments, on a national level and for each State and Territory.

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This document sets out the Administrator's determination of the minimum level of data required from jurisdictions:

• File Specification for Data Submission 2021-22: 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 2021-22 to 2023-24 (Data Plan).
• Service Estimate Provision Template 2021-22: The National Health Reform Agreement requires states and territories to provide aggregate service volumes to enable the Administrator to provide the formal forecast of Commonwealth funding contributions to each state and territory.
• File Specification for Submission B 2021-22: Submission B is provided to the Department of Human Services.

The Data Governance Policy covers both the National Health Funding Pool and the National Health Funding Body. It details the information collected, the purpose for the collection, its use, storage, disclosure and disposal, by the Administrator of the National Health Funding Pool.

Rules for determining hospital services eligible for National Health Reform Commonwealth activity based funding.

Rules for determining hospital services eligible for National Health Reform Commonwealth activity based funding.

This document explains the approach and method used by the Administrator of the National Health Funding Pool to calculate the Commonwealth National Health Reform funding to the states and territories.

The Growth and Funding Guarantees document sets out the approach and processes for implementing and calculating the growth and funding guarantee clauses of the National Health Reform Agreement from 2014-15.

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The NHFB Corporate Plan 2018-2022 sets our direction for the next four years and covers the strategy we will use to fulfil our purpose and drive our success in improving the transparency of public hospital funding in Australia.

The NHFB Corporate Plan 2017-2021 was prepared for the reporting period 2017-2018 and covers the period 2017-2018 to 2020-2021.

The NHFB Corporate Plan 2016-2017 was prepared for the reporting period 2016-2017 and covers the period 2016-2017 to 2019-2020.