1. How to: Access ANSTAT

2. What is ANSTAT? ANSTAT is a service we subscribe to that updates us about changes in legislation and regulations relevant to our industry. We receive updates every quarter via CD and these are loaded onto our Intranet by Operations.

3. What doesn’t ANSTAT do? ANSTAT does not interpret changes to legislation. IRT is a member of both Australian aged care associations, and part of the membership services include alerts to upcoming changes in legislation that may require us to review our policies and practices.

4. Other information Care (clinical) legislative updates are also summarised in the Phillips Fox Health Alert weekly updates that are posted on the IRT intranet under work and employee resources.

6. Health Alerts

7. Who can access ANSTAT? Any employee can access ANSTAT via the IRT Intranet. Access of ANSTAT is particularly encouraged for those staff responsible for updating policies and procedures of the organisation.

8. Go to the IRT Intranet, then to work and employee resources…click here

9. click on ANSTAT

10. The screen below will appear- go to nsw or commonwealth volumes to search for legislation-click your mouse over the relevant area. Unless you know what volume you want, it is easier to use the above volumes.

11. Or..click on what’s new for the most recent changes

12. Click on currency of this release

13. Click on the relevant amended legislation (note some are just compilations of previous documents), or click on the books at the top right to go back to the index

14. Click on “what’s new” to go back to the index, or select bookshelf in the top left of the screen. You can also use this section to search for a section in the document.

15. To search for a word or term in legislation-click on the volume and then legisaltion you want- eg commonwealth legislation, Aged Care Act 197 No 112

16. Click on the search button (with the binoculars-top left of toolbar)

17. Type in on the right the words you want to search for (eg “schedule”)

18. The search will bring up all relevant pieces of legislation in that index.

19. Using bits of legislation for further reference You can save the legislation as a pdf file on your computer, or you can select a paragraph to copy by clicking on the camera icon in the toolbar…

21. Use the tool to select the paragraph you want to copy and click when it is outlined, then paste in an email or word document as below..

22. Remember! Unless you are a lawyer, particularly a lawyer that specialises in aged care legislation, or the legislation in question, you are not qualified to interpret the legislation. Always seek advice of your manager before providing comment on legislation or regulations.