Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Topic - Aged Care

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

Melbourne aged care resident spending one-and-a-half hours on bus to visit specialists

“They were just not equipped”: Canberra woman says RN in charge of pain medication for dying mother was working across multiple facilities

Panel of aged care facility managers tells Commission they can’t get specialists to attend facilities – Commissioner Briggs weighs up whether they have “moral” obligation to visit

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

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

Aged care facilities transferring residents to hospital to protect themselves from litigation, Sydney paramedic tells Commission – Commissioner Briggs raises idea of whistleblowing system for health staff to report substandard care

Former Department of Health staffer says mother who had dementia suffered from unnecessary hospital transfers – Counsel Assisting questions if hospital-like services should be provided in residential care

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

Senior Counsel questions if aged care facilities should be measured on number of ambulance call outs a year during sub-acute care services panel

“We were appalled”: Victorian woman says aged care facility didn’t call ambulance for father reporting chest pains for four days

Dubbo woman blames poor communication between facility, hospital and GP for mother’s life-threatening pressure wound