The surge nursing workforce brought into St. Basil’s struggled to identify residents and quit due to fear of losing their professional registration, the Victorian coroner’s court has heard. Nurse Angela Cox volunteered to lead the agency staff sent to St. ...

Victoria’s chief health officer Brett Sutton signed off on furloughing staff at St Basil’s despite being unaware of an inadequate surge workforce, an inquest has heard. During Melbourne's second wave of COVID-19, 50 residents died inside the Greek facility after ...

Infection breaches and poor communication prevailed after St Basil’s aged care staff were furloughed following a positive Covid case during Melbourne’s second wave. The facility suffered the worst outbreak that swept through Victoria’s nursing homes last year, with 50 residents dying in July ...

The daughter of two St Basil’s residents has painted a harrowing picture of the conditions that her parents lived in before they died from COVID-19. Branka Lyons told the coroners court that her father, Jakov Pucar, 90, was a “breathing ...

The government has finally announced the makeup of the new National Aged Care Advisory Council, with 17 "prominent Australians" tasked with providing expert advice and guidance on aged care. The Minister for Health and Aged Care, Greg Hunt, announced the ...

A Melbourne woman believes her mother’s death from the coronavirus outbreak at St. Basil’s aged care facility was a form of “manslaughter”, a court has been told. Maxine Tsihlakis told a coronial inquest into the deaths of 50 residents at the facility that ...

A coronial inquest into a fatal COVID-19 outbreak inside a Melbourne aged care home has heard horrific details of malpractice, neglect and devastation. Forty-five residents died after being infected inside of the St Basil’s home for the aged last year ...

Only 3.8 per cent of Australian residential aged care homes are on track to meet the government’s new staffing standards set for 2023, a new study has found.  As part of the federal response to the royal commission, providers must ...

With the 1997 Aged Care Act going through a process of reform in Canberra, Independent Senator Rex Patrick has proposed an amendment to the new bill which would force aged care homes to have at least one registered nurse working ...

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese used his budget reply speech to take the Liberal Government to task for rejecting many of the royal commission's recommendations in last week's budget. Scott Morrison's government delivered its hotly anticipated response to the royal commission ...