Post-Hospital Care at Home in Australia

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Transition Care Programme is government subsidised; private nursing and personal care rates set by each provider. 485 requests for post-hospital nursing have been sent through Carevo.

4 minutes acceptance, all services · 69% within 1 hour

Care after hospital in your area

20,278+ post-hospital nursing providers across Australia
Funded via aged care, NDIS, DVA or private fees
Nursing and support while you recover at home
Free. One request, providers contact you.

It only takes one minute and it's free.

Care after hospital in your area

20,278+ post-hospital nursing providers across Australia
Funded via aged care, NDIS, DVA or private fees
Nursing and support while you recover at home
Free. One request, providers contact you.

Who arranges care after a hospital discharge?

In theory the hospital's discharge planner; in practice responsibility is split. The discharge planner arranges clinical follow-up and can refer into the Transition Care Programme, but only if assessment happens before discharge. The GP takes over medical oversight but does not arrange home support. My Aged Care and the NDIS run their own timelines. Usually a family member books interim support directly.

Families never pay Carevo. Providers pay a subscription to connect with families, with no commission or paid ranking. How Carevo works

Activity figures describe Carevo enquiries, not appointments or care quality. Acceptance timing excludes unclaimed enquiries. Confirm current capacity directly. Measurement period and method.

How we rank providers

Rankings in Australia use directory relevance and observable activity on Carevo: service match, distance, register-sourced status fields, whether an enquiry can reach the provider, and recent response and connection activity. Rankings are recalculated daily. They do not assess care quality or recommend a provider.

How this list is built. Providers shown here offer nursing and personal care.
Activity on Carevo. We measure recent actions such as connecting on an enquiry, opening its contact details, responding, and an inquirer reporting whether a connection helped. These are platform activity signals, not an assessment of the support delivered.
Service match. Providers are ranked by how closely their registered services and capabilities match what you are searching for.
Register-sourced status. NDIS registration fields come from the NDIS Commission provider register. Aged care approval fields come from the My Aged Care register. These statuses are ranking inputs, not Carevo endorsements, and you should confirm the current register entry before choosing a provider.
Carevo enquiries. Providers who have paused requests from us are moved down among providers with the same relevance. They stay visible and are marked as not receiving Carevo enquiries.
Recent activity. Providers active on Carevo recently (a connection, a login, or a profile update) get a small boost, the same signal shown as "Active this week" on their card. It is deliberately small: stronger relevance and condition evidence outweigh a recent login.
Local presence. Providers confirmed in Australia rank above those covering only the broader region.

What the enquiries status means

It answers one question: would a request sent through Carevo today actually reach them? It is not a rating, it is not about the provider's books, and it is not a statement about their capacity, their waiting list, or the quality of their care.

Receiving: At least one contact on their account is set up to receive new requests from us, and someone has signed in recently enough for us to say a person is there.
Not receiving: Every contact on the account has unsubscribed or paused, so we have no way to pass an enquiry on.
No status shown: We cannot tell either way, so we say nothing rather than label the provider. The account is set to receive enquiries, but nobody has signed in recently, or there are no contact details on file. It is not a negative mark, and most listings sit here.

A provider who is not receiving our enquiries may well be taking new clients directly. Providers set this themselves and can turn it back on at any time from their Carevo account or from any email we send them. Providers not receiving our enquiries are moved down the list and never hidden. It is refreshed daily, so a provider who resumes, or signs in, reappears within a day.

What the Carevo activity rating means

The Strong activity rating describes how a provider behaves on Carevo, not the care they deliver.

Where it starts: Every provider starts at a baseline of 50.
What moves it: Enquiries from the last 90 days. The strongest positive is a care seeker naming that provider as the one who helped them. The clearest negative is connecting on an enquiry and never opening the contact details.
How it is kept honest: Recalculated daily from scratch, shown only above the baseline and only with at least two scored signals, and removed automatically when either stops being true. It cannot be purchased.

It is not an endorsement, a recommendation, or an assessment of care quality, and we do not screen providers for complaints. Complaints are handled by the NDIS Commission and the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission. See the full activity rating methodology.

20,278

matched providers

35,248

providers nationally

How we calculate provider numbers

Where to find post-hospital care

Providers listed

20,278

States with coverage

Provider density by state

New South Wales

6,502

Victoria

6,158

Queensland

3,532

Western Australia

1,677

South Australia

1,462

Northern Territory

340

Australian Capital Territory

328

Tasmania

279

How to check a provider's credentials

Carevo shows register-sourced status fields and links you to the official Australian registers so you can confirm the current entry yourself. Here is what each listing shows and where to check it. A listing on Carevo is not an endorsement.

NDIS registration

Listings show whether a provider reports being NDIS registered. You can confirm a provider's current registration and approved support types yourself on the NDIS Commission's public provider register.

Source: NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

Aged care approval

The aged care approval label is sourced from the Australian Government's My Aged Care provider register. Confirm the current entry and the services listed there before choosing a provider.

Source: My Aged Care (Department of Health and Aged Care)

ABN you can check

Most listings include the provider's Australian Business Number, shown on the profile. You can look it up on the Australian Business Register to confirm the business is registered and active.

Source: Australian Business Register

Complaints process

If you have a concern about any provider, you can lodge a complaint with the NDIS Commission or the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission at any time. We also accept complaints via our own channel.

Source: NDIS Commission / Aged Care Commission

Post-Hospital Nursing at a glance

Funding: Transition Care Programme, Support at Home restorative pathway, NDIS, DVA, Private
Availability: 7 days a week
Wait Time: Confirm current availability and a start date directly with the provider
Cost: Transition Care Programme is government subsidised; private nursing and personal care rates set by each provider
Hours: Flexible scheduling, including same-week starts after discharge
Acceptance (all services): 4 minutes

How much does post-hospital nursing cost in Australia?

Post-Hospital Nursing in Australia typically costs Transition Care Programme is government subsidised; private nursing and personal care rates set by each provider. Actual rates vary by provider, funding type, and the level of support required.

How to pay for post-hospital nursing

Funding options include aged care, NDIS, DVA or private fees. Eligibility depends on your assessment and plan.

What is post-hospital care?

Post-hospital care is short-term support at home in the weeks after a hospital stay: the period when wounds need dressing, medications have changed, strength has not come back, and the risk of ending up back in hospital is highest. A typical arrangement combines home nursing for wound care and medication management, personal care for showering and dressing, domestic assistance while lifting and bending are off-limits, and allied health such as physiotherapy to rebuild strength and prevent falls. It is usually intensive for two to twelve weeks, then tapers off or transitions into ongoing support.

What government programs cover care after hospital?

Two pathways matter for older people. The Transition Care Programme provides up to 12 weeks of subsidised, goal-oriented care directly after a hospital stay, and you must be assessed while still in hospital, so raise it with the ward’s discharge planner before you leave (Department of Health and Aged Care, 2025). If you are already in the aged care system, the restorative care pathway under Support at Home funds allied-health-led recovery episodes. For NDIS participants, supports connected to the hospital stay are coordinated through the plan, and hospital liaison officers help arrange discharge supports. Veterans with a DVA card should start with DVA-funded home care.

What if I can’t wait, or don’t qualify?

Carevo measures whether a provider accepts an enquiry, not when care starts or a practitioner contacts you. Confirm current capacity and a start date directly. How Carevo measures enquiry acceptance.

Who actually arranges care after a hospital discharge?

In theory, the hospital’s discharge planner. In practice, responsibility is split and things fall through the cracks in the handover. The discharge planner or ward social worker arranges the clinical follow-up and can refer into the Transition Care Programme, but only if the assessment happens before discharge. The GP takes over medical oversight after discharge but does not arrange home support. My Aged Care and the NDIS run their own assessment timelines that rarely match the discharge date. What usually closes the gap is a family member who books interim support directly, which is exactly what the ranked list above is for. If you are reading this from a hospital corridor, the two questions to ask the ward today are: has an aged care or TCP assessment been requested, and what date is discharge actually planned for.

How long does post-hospital care last?

Plan in three phases. The first two weeks carry the highest readmission risk and usually need daily support: nursing for wounds and medications, personal care, and meals. Weeks three to six taper as strength returns, often down to a few visits a week with physiotherapy doing the heavy lifting. By week twelve, government short-term programs end (the Transition Care Programme runs up to 12 weeks), and the honest question is whether support is still needed. If it is, the need is ongoing rather than post-hospital: that is the point to get a My Aged Care assessment for a Support at Home budget rather than keep buying week-to-week, because assessment and budget allocation take time and starting the process at week twelve leaves another gap.

How to choose a post-hospital provider from the list above

The list above is ranked using the criteria explained in the methodology above it. For post-hospital support specifically, check four things. Clinical capability first: confirm the provider can supply a nurse for wound care and medication management, not just support workers, and that nurses hold current AHPRA registration. Speed second: ask whether they can genuinely start this week, because a start date in three weeks defeats the purpose. Communication third: the provider should take the discharge summary and follow it, and flag deterioration to the GP. Escalation last: ask what the provider does if a wound looks infected or pain is not controlled on a Sunday night.

What does post-hospital care reduce the risk of?

The weeks after discharge are when falls, medication errors and missed follow-up appointments put people back in hospital. Structured support targets each one: supervised movement and home hazard checks against falls, a nurse reconciling the new medication list against what is actually in the cupboard, and transport to follow-up appointments so specialist reviews are not skipped. If recovery stalls and support needs look permanent rather than short-term, that is the point to get a My Aged Care assessment for an ongoing budget, or to compare overnight care for nights.

Availability

Carevo lists 32,033 NDIS providers and 4,325 aged care providers across 8,918 suburbs nationally, with records updated 2026-08-26. Nursing is named in 324 of the 9,483 tracked inquiries on Carevo, and post-hospital arrangements are among the most time-critical, so response speed weighs heavily in the ranking above.

How this page is compiled

The provider rankings and figures on this page come from Carevo platform records, including provider registrations, measured response times and coverage, together with the cited official sources. Carevo is an Australian platform that connects families with NDIS and aged care providers. Carevo does not deliver care itself.

Funding sources and checks

Check the current NDIA pricing arrangements and Support at Home program rules for the proposed service. Funding depends on the approved support and available budget; a Carevo listing is not approval. Confirm availability and a start date directly with the provider.

Enquiry Acceptance by State

Time to the first provider accepting enquiry details across all services, not a service-specific response or care start. Unclaimed enquiries are excluded from these timing figures. See response-time methodology

Enquiry acceptance across all services by Australian state
State	Median acceptance	Accepted in 1 hour	Accepted in 24 hours	Accepted enquiries
VIC	3 minutes	74%	89%	7,425
WA	5 minutes	69%	87%	2,565
NSW	5 minutes	70%	87%	7,614
QLD	6 minutes	68%	87%	4,750
SA	7 minutes	66%	86%	1,718
ACT	34 minutes	54%	79%	259
NT	42 minutes	54%	76%	82
TAS	1 hour 41 min	47%	72%	284

Sorted fastest to slowest by median. Sample 24,697 accepted enquiries platform-wide. The observation period and exclusions are recorded in the linked methodology.

What post-hospital nursing costs

Transition Care Programme is government subsidised; private nursing and personal care rates set by each provider

NDIS price limits are national. They do not vary by state or territory, but most items carry higher limits in remote (MMM6) and very remote (MMM7) areas.

Remote areas attract a 40 per cent loading and very remote areas 50 per cent on most priced supports. The plan management monthly fee is flat across all three. A provider may charge less than the limit. Plan-managed and self-managed participants can also use unregistered providers, who set their own rates.

Source: NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026-27 (effective 1 July 2026). Prices are what a provider may charge, not what you will pay: your funding, plan management type and service agreement decide that.

Australian Regulations & Compliance

NDIS providers may be registered with the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, and registered providers comply with the NDIS Practice Standards. Registration is mandatory only for specified supports and circumstances, such as specialist disability accommodation, plan management, and supports involving regulated restrictive practices. Self-managed and plan-managed participants may generally choose registered or unregistered providers; NDIA-managed participants must use registered providers. Aged care services operate under the Aged Care Quality Standards enforced by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission. Providers are subject to regular audits and must maintain worker screening in accordance with state and territory requirements. Participants have the right to make complaints, change providers, and access independent advocacy at any time.

NDIS Quality & Safeguards Commission

Phone: 1800 035 544

Website: ndiscommission.gov.au

Aged Care Quality & Safety Commission

Phone: 1800 951 822

Website: agedcarequality.gov.au

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Transition Care Programme?

Up to 12 weeks of subsidised, goal-oriented care directly after a hospital stay for older people, including nursing, allied health and personal care at home or in a residential setting, extendable by up to six weeks where the care team agrees (Department of Health and Aged Care, 2025). You must be assessed while still in hospital, so raise it with the discharge planner before you leave.

What if I cannot wait for a government assessment?

Private home care bridges the gap: no assessment is needed and support can start within days, at rates set by each provider. Many families buy two or three private weeks and move to funded care once a Support at Home budget or NDIS supports are in place.

What does post-hospital care include?

Home nursing for wound care and medication management, personal care for showering and dressing, domestic assistance while lifting and bending are off-limits, physiotherapy to rebuild strength and prevent falls, and transport to follow-up appointments. Intensive for two to twelve weeks, then tapering.

Does the NDIS cover care after hospital?

For participants, supports connected to the hospital stay are coordinated through the plan, and hospital liaison officers help arrange discharge supports. If needs have changed, a plan reassessment may be needed; a support coordinator can move that along.

What should I ask the ward before discharge?

Two questions: has an aged care or Transition Care Programme assessment been requested, and what date is discharge actually planned for. Then ask the provider you book whether they can genuinely start this week, whether they supply a nurse and not just support workers, and what they do if a wound looks infected on a Sunday night.

How quickly do Post-Hospital Nursing providers respond to enquiries?

Based on 24,761 accepted enquiries across all services on Carevo, the median acceptance time is 4 minutes. 69% of enquiries have details accepted by a provider within 1 hour, and 87% within 24 hours among accepted enquiries. Unclaimed enquiries are excluded; acceptance does not measure contact or care starting.

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Who's asking for post-hospital nursing

Based on 346 real requests families and participants sent through Carevo for post-hospital nursing in Australia. This is the make-up of that demand, not a measure of how it changes over time.

Also asked for in the same request

How people pay for it

Home Care Package / Support at Home 26%
NDIS plan-managed 25%
CHSP 5%
NDIS self-managed 4%
NDIS agency-managed 1%

Who gets in touch

Family or carer 50%
The person themselves 25%
A support coordinator 16%
A health professional 1%

How soon they need it

Needed urgently 58%
Within a few weeks 19%
Planning ahead 15%

Percentages are of the 346 requests above and are rounded, so they will not always total 100. Requests can name more than one service, which is why "also asked for" shares overlap. Figures update with each rebuild.

Where post-hospital nursing is most in demand

Ranked by the enquiries families have actually sent through Carevo for this service, then by how many providers cover the suburb. Every other suburb is one click away through the state guides below.

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Sources and content responsibility

Carevo maintains this service guide. The funding and directory wording was checked on 15 September 2026. This is not a clinical review. Confirm a practitioner's qualifications, suitability, fees and current availability before booking.

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