Saturday, 27 December 2025

Health


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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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