Department of Health and Ageing
DoHA
26 November 2001 – 18 September 2013
Previously Department of Health and Aged Care (1998–2001). Renamed Department of Health in 2013.
Department of State responsible for health policy and funding, Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, aged care and ageing, population health and, from 2007 to 2011, sport.
Names over time
- Department of Community Services and Health1987–1991
- Department of Health, Housing and Community Services1991–1993
- Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services1993
- Department of Human Services and Health1993–1996
- Department of Health and Family Services1996–1998
- Department of Health and Aged Care1998–2001
- Department of Health and Ageing2001–2013
- Department of Health2013–2022
- Department of Health and Aged Care2022–2025
- Department of Health, Disability and Ageing2025–present
How it came into existence
Created on 26 November 2001 when the Administrative Arrangements Order of the third Howard ministry renamed the Department of Health and Aged Care. It took sport from the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts on 3 December 2007; sport moved to the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport on 14 December 2011.
- Health
- Aged care
- Hearing services
Changes during its life
- Took over functions from Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts · 3 December 2007
- Sport and recreation
- Portfolio oversight of the Australian Sports Commission
- Blood and plasma product supply contracts
- Portfolio oversight of the Health Insurance Commission
- Portfolio oversight of Health Services Australia
- National cancer programs
- Part split off to form Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority · 1 January 2009
- Organ and tissue donation programs
- Preventive health social marketing campaigns
- Preventive health programs and grants
- Part split off to form Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport · 14 December 2011
- Sport and recreation (Office for Sport)
- Portfolio oversight of the Australian Sports Commission
- Admitted patient classification development
- National Hospital Cost Data Collection
Classification and costing work was taken over from the department progressively after 2011.
- Approval of extra service fees
How it ended
Renamed the Department of Health on 18 September 2013, with ageing and aged care going to the Department of Social Services.
- National health policy
- Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
- Hospital funding
- Population health
- Ageing and aged care policy and programs
Main functions
- Health policy and Commonwealth–State health funding
- Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
- Aged care and ageing policy
- Population health and health protection
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
- Health workforce and private health insurance policy
- Sport and recreation (2007–2011)
Bodies in this portfolio (6)
- National Breast Cancer Centre 1995–2008
- Australia New Zealand Food Authority 1996–2002
- Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care 2000–2006
- Commissioner for Complaints 2000–2007
- National Institute of Clinical Studies 2000–2007
- National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre 2008–2011
Lineage
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Sources
Primary sources
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 26 November 2001 (created it)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 18 September 2013 (took effect as it ended)
12 more Administrative Arrangements Orders set it out
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 18 December 2003 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 26 October 2004 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 16 December 2004 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 21 September 2006 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 21 September 2006, as amended to 30 January 2007 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 3 December 2007 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 25 January 2008 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 14 September 2010 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 14 October 2010 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 14 December 2011 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 9 February 2012 (sets it out)
- Administrative Arrangements Order of 16 May 2013 (sets it out)