Aged care providers should be required to report staff-to-patients ratios for their facilities each quarter, a committee investigating the move has told parliament. In a new report, the Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport recommended the passage of ...

The recent announcement of a Royal Commission into aged care has brought issues of the staffing levels and skill mix of residential aged care facilities into focus. Demand for aged care services is increasing due to the ageing of the ...

Australia’s current aged care complaints body has seen a 23 per cent increase in the number of issues raised. The Aged Care Complaints Commissioner’s 2017–18 Annual Report was tabled in Parliament on Friday by Minister for Senior Australians and Aged ...

Should providers be required to publish staffing ratios online? Centre Alliance MP Rebekha Sharkie introduced the idea into parliament through the Aged Care Amendment (Staffing Ratio Disclosure) Bill 2018. The private members bill, supported by Independent MP for Indi Cathy ...