One issue the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety’s report hasn’t changed is that Australians still do not have visibility of whether care provided by a residential aged care facility is good, bad or indifferent. The publicly available ...
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‘A watershed moment’: sector reacts to royal commission report and four areas for immediate action
“Get cracking.” That’s the overwhelming call from advocacy groups in response to the release of the aged care royal commission’s final report. Council on the Ageing (COTA) Australia said the report’s release places the onus on the Morrison Government to ...
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The final report from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety was released today, and after two years it looks like this could only be the halfway point on the way to transforming the sector. Titled Care, Dignity ...
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison called the aged care royal commission’s final report “candid” and "ambitious” but the government has so far “made no decisions” on its findings. Commissioners Lynelle Briggs and Tony Pagone have set out a roadmap for government ...
More »Now for the hard part: who will care after the Royal Commission? Opinion
We’ve lived with it for so long, it was beginning to seem like the Royal Commission on Aged Care would always be with us. But now that the astonishing, apparently never-ending series of revelations that shocked the nation will no ...
More »The aged care system is broken: we need proper, hard reform – Ged Kearney
The Aged Care Royal Commission has handed its final report to the government. And fellow nurses, haven’t we been waiting for this for a long time. For decades, we’ve been raising our voices, telling anyone who would listen that the ...
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Australia’s vaccine rollout is “on track” after a second delivery of Pfizer vaccines arrived in the country on Tuesday. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the development gave him confidence in the reliability of supply from Europe. “The consistency of supply ...
More »Should the COVID-19 vaccine be mandatory for healthcare workers?
With phase 1a of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout underway this week, questions still stand about the public's appetite to get vaccinated. Recent data from the Melbourne Institute’s fortnightly Taking the Pulse of the Nation (TTPN) survey found that willingness to ...
More »Latest study shows growing resistance and hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccine
New analysis from the Australian National University shows resistance and hesitancy towards a COVID-19 vaccination is growing in Australia. The study is based on a longitudinal survey of 3,500 Australians that tracked individuals’ responses prior to the pandemic taking place, ...
More »AstraZeneca becomes second COVID vaccine to get TGA approval
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted provisional approval for the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine. In a statement, TGA said Australians can be confident that the regulator's review process was rigorous and of the highest standard. It ...
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