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WA enters second phase of consultation on proposed changes to retirement village laws – buybacks up for debate post image

WA enters second phase of consultation on proposed changes to retirement village laws – buybacks up for debate

Reward and fast track your village management in Code compliance ​at the VILLAGE SUMMIT (February in Sydney) post image

Reward and fast track your village management in Code compliance ​at the VILLAGE SUMMIT (February in Sydney)

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“She doesn’t really trust him”: Canberra woman says GP in mother’s aged care facility only focuses on “reactive care”

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Larger facilities best equipped to provide health care to aged care residents, Sydney emergency medicine director tells Commission – and there is scope for specialist aged care medical workforce

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Commissioner Briggs raises idea of additional national agreement to set down responsibility for health services in residential care during panel with State health officials

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Senior Counsel calls on Commonwealth, States and Territories and providers to join forces to fix failings in interface between aged care and health care – as Counsel Assisting “reconsiders” propositions

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“We don’t have a clue”: Australia five to 10 years behind other countries on collecting data in residential care, geriatric medicine experts tell Commission

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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

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Department of Health representatives dispute Government clearinghouse data that 9% of aged care residents didn’t see a GP in 2016/17 – Senior Counsel calls out DoH for failing to identify underlying need for GPs

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

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

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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