How To Safely Wear PPE In Aged Care

An aged care worker in Tasmania failed to tell her employer she went overseas, and returned to work caring for older people in their homes. The woman has been accused of putting older people at risk of contracting coronavirus, working for a week before her employer was alerted to her travel. The woman travelled to... Read More

Federal authorities will investigate a COVID-19 cluster at a Melbourne abattoir as the number of positive cases from the Cedar Meats outbreak reaches 69, including a nurse and an aged care worker. The nurse, was believed to have treated a Cedar Meats worker with a severed thumb during three consecutive shifts at the Sunshine Hospital... Read More

  The senate select committee has handed down a damning report on the government’s bungled handling of this year’s COVID-19 crisis in aged care homes, particularly in NSW and Victoria. “The government is responsible for significant failings in the aged care sector prior to, and during the pandemic,” the report states. COVID-19 “exposed and exacerbated long-running problems” in... Read More