Government Policy

IHACPA seeks additional costing data from providers on top of QFS and ACFR

The Independent Hospital and Aged Care Pricing authority (IHACPS), which provides the Government with evidence-based advice on the cost of delivering aged care services, asks aged care providers for costing data to help them form their...

Caroline Egan

23 Apr 2024

Aged Care

Low vaccination rates may have impacted death rates in residential aged care

A lack of vaccination data The vaccination campaign began on 22 February 2021, and was criticised for being rolled out too late. Vaccinations in residential aged care were also criticised for being too slow. When the Omicron outbreak began in...

Caroline Egan

24 Apr 2024

Government Policy

Aged Care Minister Mark Butler’s big change for residential aged care

The Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler announced during the week that pharmacists will be funded by the Government to go into residential aged care homes and deliver vaccines to residents for free, a measure that was previously only...

Caroline Egan

24 Apr 2024

Government Policy

“The Acting Inspector-General of Aged Care does not commonly issue statements” but...

The Acting Inspector-General of Aged Care has issued a Statement highlighting the Aged Care Taskforce’s omission of any details about a “needs-based framework” for aged care services in its Final Report. The Statement outlines the parallels between...

Caroline Egan

23 Apr 2024

Aged Care

400% increase in aged care job applications: Anglicare Sydney

dfasdfdasfasdf Yvette McDonald Chief People and Customer Officer, Anglicare Sydney Our residential care workforce has seen a significant turnaround due to both internal and external factors. Internally: we have focused on residential manager...

Caroline Egan

23 Apr 2024

Government Policy

Ageing population sees hospitals “at breaking point” and it is going to get worse: AMA

Emergency wait times are the longest in a decade and surgery wait times are at their longest ever, according to the 2024 Public Hospital Report Card, an annual report that uses data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare to pinpoint...

Caroline Egan

23 Apr 2024

Government Policy

National Aged Care Advisory Council on Aged Care Taskforce Final Report and new Aged Care Act

You can read the communique here

Caroline Egan

23 Apr 2024

Government Policy

Juniper CEO Russell Bricknell appointed Chair of the Aged Care Workforce Remote Accord

Russell Bricknell, CEO of WA’s largest Not For Profit local aged care provider, Juniper, has been appointed Chair of The Aged Care Workforce Remote Accord, a group of aged care employers and experts helping solve aged care workforce issues in remote...

Caroline Egan

23 Apr 2024

Government Policy

New Quality Standards will come into effect with new Aged Care Act: Department confirms

The Department of Health and Aged Care has confirmed that the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards will be rolled out at the same time as the new Aged Care Act. “The strengthened Standards have been finalised and will come into effect in line...

Caroline Egan

11 Apr 2024

Government Policy

“Any delay to pay rise will only add to the aged care sector’s workforce crisis”

The Opposition and unions have hit back at the Government’s attempt to phase in aged care worker pay rises of up to 13.5% by almost two years, a position announced late last Friday afternoon.

Caroline Egan

18 Apr 2024

Home Care

Aged care regulator to increase audits as one-third of home care operators found to be non-compliant

66% of home care providers do not comply with all 8 Quality Standards, according to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission 66-page Sector Performance Report for the December 2023 quarter.

Caroline Egan

16 Apr 2024

In the Headlines

Albanese Government again seeks to phase in aged care workers’ pay rises

The Australian Government late on 12 April 2024 has advised the Fair Work Commission (FWC) it again wants to phase in the pay rises recommended for direct aged car workers. The indirect workers will receive the recommended pay rise in full on 1 January 2025.

Ian Horswill

12 Apr 2024

Aged Care

Bolton Clarke brings 98 Fijian aged care workers to QLD, NSW in one of PALM’s largest intakes

Starting this week and over the coming months, 98 aged care workers are set to come from Fiji to work in 17 Bolton Clarke aged care homes in regional Queensland and New South Wales.

Caroline Egan

18 Apr 2024