Aromatherapy for Palliative Care – VIDEO

The Labor Government promise of a national registration system for aged care workers will be introduced to Parliament in 2023 alongside the new Aged Care Act. Read More

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety highlighted “working in aged care is not a valued occupation” and “major change is necessary to deliver the certainty and working environment that staff need to deliver great quality care” – and there is no doubt much more needs to be done. Read More

It seems that palliative care patients could be the ones to suffer under the Department of Health’s crackdown on doctors prescribing opiates. The Department’s heightened scrutiny of opioid prescribing has resulted in some doctors stopping prescribing opioids for patients in palliative care, and others have cut back visiting patients in palliative care. Department’s letter to nearly 5,000 GPs... Read More