Topic - Aged Care

Attention NSW aged care providers: doctors no longer need to handwrite medication orders

Jan 22 2018 Updated May 3, 2023

The Weekly Source

1 min read

Visiting doctors now only have to sign and date a printed Webstercare order sheet after the practice was approved by the NSW Ministry of Health.

Webstercare estimates the change will cut doctors’ administrative duties by 60%, freeing up more time for patient care, and improving the accuracy of medication dispensing – a win for providers and residents.

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Caroline Egan

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Mergers & Acquisitions

Exclusive: Levande buys four new sites for retirement villages

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Ian Horswill

22 Apr 2025

Opinion

Why 20 May is more important to the retirement living sector than Election Day

The Baby Boomer generation is being ignored by the Labor and Liberal-National Coalition parties as the Gen Y and Gen Z become the increasingly dominant generations and this will not change.

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Ian Horswill

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Opinion

Aged care isn’t fixed – so why are we not talking about it?

If you tuned into yesterday’s National Press Club debate between Federal Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler, and Shadow Minister, Anne Ruston, hoping for a meaningful discussion on aged care – you would have been sorely disappointed.

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Lauren Broomham

24 Apr 2025

Eureka secures $180M in refinancing deal, acquires new site in QLD

Eureka Group Holdings CEO Simon Owen is delivering on his ambition to make the company Australia’s market leader in both over-50s and all-age rental communities, after successfully refinancing and expanding its debt facilities.

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After four years, Opal HealthCare receives DA approval for aged care community in Western Sydney

Australia’s largest residential aged care operator has received the green light from Penrith City Council for a 129-bed aged care community in St Clair, 44km west of the Sydney CBD, following conciliation in the NSW Land and Environment Court.

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Caroline Egan

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Development

Third.i announces strategic joint venture with Dexus to deliver The Merewether retirement village in Newcastle

The property developer has revealed that it will partner with the Australasian real assets group to deliver the $300 million, 178-unit luxury retirement community at the Merewether Golf Club in Newcastle.

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Lauren Broomham

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