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Fed Govt provides just $87 million to tackle aged care red tape in MYEFO post image
Topic - Aged Care Ageing

Fed Govt provides just $87 million to tackle aged care red tape in MYEFO

by The Weekly Source
Topic - Aged Care Topic - Editorial

Senior Counsel calls on Commonwealth, States and Territories and providers to join forces to fix failings in interface between aged care and health care – as Counsel Assisting “reconsiders” propositions

by The Weekly Source
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