• Online Services
  • Frequently asked questions
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  • Medicare Safety Net
    • Saving money
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    • PBS Safety Net
  • Your prescriptions (PBS)
    • Using Medicine Wisely
    • Information when lodging prescription
    • Getting more medicine than you need endangers your health and the health of others
    • Claiming and collecting Medicare benefits for someone else
    • PBS and compensation
  • Australian Organ Donor Register (AODR)
    • Your decision
    • How to register
    • Register
    • Frequently asked questions
    • Help promote the Australian Organ Donor Register
    • Further information
  • Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR)
    • About the Immunisation Register
    • The immunisation schedule
    • Keeping track of your child's immunisations
    • Australian Government family assistance payments
  • Family Assistance Office (FAO)
    • Making it easier for families
  • Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate Scheme
  • Compensation Recipients
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    • Dahab Egypt bombing health care costs assistance
    • Bali 2005
    • London Assist
    • Tsunami healthcare assistance scheme
    • Balimed
  • National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP)
  • Medicare Teen Dental Plan
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    • Visitors to Australia - United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, Malta and Italy
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    • Travelling in Malta
    • Health care while travelling in Norway
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English Information Kit

Medicare Australia produces information sheets about Australia's main health programs, including Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. The information is useful for both new arrivals and longer term residents.

• Medicare and Medicare Safety Net [PDF, 575Kb]
• Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme [PDF, 330Kb]
• Family Assistance Office [PDF, 252Kb]
• Australian Childhood Immunisation Register [PDF, 255Kb]
• Australian Organ Donor Register [PDF, 384Kb]
• Service Charter [PDF, 112Kb]
• Lifetime Health Cover [PDF, 214Kb]

You can download sections of the Information Kit above, visit your local Medicare office, Migrant Resource Centre or call 132 011 for a copy. If you need help translating this information call the Translating and Interpreting Service on 131 450.

Some documents on this page may require the free Adobe PDF reader.

Last updated: 30 May, 2008