Victorian aged care assessment teams (ACATs) will begin using the My Aged Care system for referrals from next Monday with South Australia to join a week later as part of moves to streamline and digitise all referrals to Commonwealth funded aged care services.

However, general practitioners continue to complain about the system, with the ability to write and send a referral from within their desktop software not yet on the horizon and a webform still the most likely interim measure.