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

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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.

Bolton Clarke announces former Ramsay Health Care executive Olivier Chretien as new Group CEO

Australia’s largest Not For Profit aged care provider has appointed the experienced CEO and executive Olivier Chretien as Group CEO, effective 1 July 2025.

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Caroline Egan

30 Apr 2025

Mergers & Acquisitions

Exclusive: Levande buys four new sites for retirement villages

Levande adds four new sites to its $2B growth plan, including major developments in Sydney, Melbourne, and Geelong.

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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

22 Apr 2025

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

IRT CEO Patrick Reid steps down after eight years

The Illawarra-based Not For Profit has announced the resignation of its CEO, Patrick Reid, who is departing to take up a new leadership role with another community services organisation, understood to be a competitor of IRT. As a result, he has...

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“Desperate” home care sector is crying out for more Packages to be released

Russell Bricknell (pictured left), CEO of WA Not For Profit aged care provider Juniper, has shared with The SOURCE the experience of his father-in-law, who is living with advanced dementia, waiting more than 12 months for an aged care assessment and Home Care Package.

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Coalition’s pledge to cut home care wait list to zero is too little, too late

With just days until polling day, aged care has finally entered the political spotlight, with Shadow Minister for Aged Care Anne Ruston pledging a Coalition Government would cut home care wait times to zero, but making no commitment to release more Home Care Packages.

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Apollo Care expands to 13 homes with regional QLD acquisition

Specialist aged care provider Apollo Care, which supports stand-alone aged care homes in regional communities, has taken on its 13th home, Resthaven on Quarry in Mackay, Queensland, 1,000km northwest of Brisbane.

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Caroline Egan

01 May 2025