New research reveals that small homes run by the government deliver the highest quality aged care services to residents. The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety analysed more than 50 quality indicators including data on clinical outcomes, compliance, complaints, assaults, missing residents, consumer experience, and workforce levels. The data was gleaned from...
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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...
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