How To Safely Wear PPE In Aged Care

The nixed Pandemic Leave Disaster Payments scheme is relaunching from today, with workers isolating due to COVID-19 exposure or infection able to access the funding again - a great win for aged care workers. Read More

The Australian Government is establishing a Victorian Aged Care Response Centre to co-ordinate and expand resources to tackle the challenge of COVID-19 in age care services. The Victorian Aged Care Response Centre will bring together Commonwealth and State government agencies at the State Control Centre in Melbourne in a co-ordinated effort to manage the impact... Read More

  The federal government is coming under increasing pressure for not releasing the review it commissioned into COVID-19 outbreaks at St Basil’s and Epping Gardens during Victoria’s  devastating second wave.  The review, which was conducted by Professor Lyn Gilbert and Adjunct Professor Alan Lilly, who also conducted the review of Newmarch house, was handed to... Read More