Sunday, 18 January 2026
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Health
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial

Provider-driven market has failed to deliver health care to residents, state health officials say – but funding, legislative and information sharing reform needed to incentivise change

by The Weekly Source
Topic - Editorial Government Policy

Department of Health representatives dispute Government clearinghouse data that 9% of aged care residents didn’t see a GP in 2016/17 – Senior Counsel calls out DoH for failing to identify underlying need for GPs

by The Weekly Source
Topic - Aged Care Ageing

Only one resident out of 1,200 with an ACFI claim for palliative care: in-house palliative care nurse practitioner says providers can’t provide similar service without funding and regulatory reform

by The Weekly Source
Topic - Aged Care Ageing

Red tape preventing aged care and home care recipients from accessing restorative care, rehabilitation medicine expert argues – and funding for rehabilitation should be tied to residents

by The Weekly Source
Topic - Aged Care Ageing

Hospital systems in Australia don’t collect data to identify aged care residents, geriatric emergency medicine panel tells Commission – and live link to MyAgedCare data is the solution

by The Weekly Source
Number of home care operators greater than the number of residential aged care providers for first time – by 6%. ACAT numbers down 19% post image
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial

Number of home care operators greater than the number of residential aged care providers for first time – by 6%. ACAT numbers down 19%

by The Weekly Source
Aged care building and refurbishment a $4.9B a year business post image
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial

Aged care building and refurbishment a $4.9B a year business

by The Weekly Source
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial

Aged care peaks warn of 2020 ‘emergency’ without urgent funding boost – is a 15% increase to staff pay the solution?

by The Weekly Source
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial

Last Royal Commission hearings for 2019 start next week in Canberra – Department of Health again under scrutiny

by The Weekly Source
Topic - Aged Care Ageing

89.4% residential occupancy figure may not be accurate – because Government not analysing data, Mirus Head of IT says

by The Weekly Source
QLD passes Health Transparency Bill to ‘name and shame’ aged care providers who don’t disclose staffing ratios, including 3.65 hours per day for Govt facilities post image
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial

QLD passes Health Transparency Bill to ‘name and shame’ aged care providers who don’t disclose staffing ratios, including 3.65 hours per day for Govt facilities

by The Weekly Source
Southern Cross Care (Tasmania) CEO steps down following Royal Commission case study post image
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial

Southern Cross Care (Tasmania) CEO steps down following Royal Commission case study

by The Weekly Source