Provider registration with the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, the Support at Home pricing rules and published room prices for residential homes are national, and our Sydney aged care page walks through the registration categories. What follows is where Queensland differs, and our Gold Coast aged care page points back here for it. Worker screening comes first: an aged care worker needs either a police certificate under three years old that doesn't record certain offences, or an NDIS worker screening clearance, and Queenslanders apply for the NDIS check through the state's own worker screening unit. If you mention screening on your site, a plain sentence saying which roles are screened does the job; there's no need to publish anyone's clearance.
Clinicians are the second difference. If you employ registered nurses, physiotherapists or other health practitioners, the Office of the Health Ombudsman (opens in a new tab) is the single entry point for complaints about registered and unregistered health practitioners in Queensland, while complaints about Commonwealth-funded aged care services are handled by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission. Advertising those clinicians' services brings in the Ahpra rules, which our Brisbane allied health page covers.
The third is the state's retirement village law. Queensland's instructions to operators under the Retirement Villages Act 1999 say the Village Comparison Document has to sit on the village website and that the website must carry the latest version. Because several items in the document refer to the last financial year, it needs updating at least once a year. If your organisation runs a village beside home care or a residential home, the village pages and the care pages should be planned as one site, with one set of contact details.
The river split has practical effects. A provider based in Carindale that also visits clients in Wavell Heights deals with two PHNs and two groups of care finders. Naming suburbs on each side, instead of writing "Greater Brisbane", lets each set of referrers see where you overlap with them. Residential care is spread out too: Brisbane City's homes had 9,371 residents on 30 June 2025, including 705 in the Chermside area and 705 around Sandgate and Bracken Ridge on the north side, and 668 each in the Holland Park–Yeronga and Rocklea–Acacia Ridge areas to the south.
We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Brisbane providers by phone and email. We haven't built for a Brisbane aged care provider yet. Our aged care client, Golden Years Aged Care Support, is in Northern Adelaide, and our Queensland clients include Queensland Dance & Performing Arts at Thorneside, on Brisbane's Bayside.