Today is a great day to acknowledge the tremendous contribution made by Australia’s hundreds of thousands of volunteers, carers, nurses, allied health professionals, cleaners, administrative staff and the many others who work in aged care. I am immensely proud of our aged care workforce and your commitment to care for and enrich the lives of...
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Most people would be surprised to discover that doctors are traditionally not counted as part of the aged care sector workforce. The AMA has long argued that this is a massive oversight, particularly in residential aged care. It would be like not counting doctors as part of the hospital workforce. Older people tend to have...
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The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety last week released a special report looking at the sector’s response to COVID-19 and made several recommendations designed to safeguard residents moving forward. One was that the federal government should arrange with states and territories to deploy “accredited infection prevention and control experts” into aged-care facilities to better prepare for, and assist with, management of outbreaks.
But who are these accredited infection prevention and control experts, and what will they actually do?
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