The Federal Government has used its Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook to announce an extra half a billion dollars ($552.9 million) in funding for the aged care sector. “Older Australians have built our country and they deserve our respect and support for the choices they want to make,” the Prime Minister Scott Morrison said. Where...
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A Victorian man has been fined $60,000 after being convicted of charges relating to falsely claiming to be a registered nurse. The charges involved four counts of holding himself out as a registered nurse, one of unlawfully using the protected title ‘registered nurse’ and one count of unlawfully claiming to be authorised or qualified to...
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There is an alarming disconnect between the government’s reassurances there is no crisis in aged care and voices from within the sector telling us that short staffing, a lack of PPE and RATs, and a scarcity of accurate information are contributing to a “grim” situation. Who should we believe?
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