How To Safely Wear PPE In Aged Care

  The NSW coroner will investigate all COVID-19-related deaths at Newmarch House. The western Sydney aged care facility saw 70 people become infected with the virus and 17 residents die, in what became Australia’s most deadly outbreak. Of Australia’s 102 deaths in total, nearly 17 per cent were at Newmarch House. Staff member carried virus into the... Read More

  The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety will hold special hearings into the aged care sector’s response to COVID-19, but it will not investigate the situation in Victoria in order to avoid creating an unnecessary distraction while the crisis is still underway.  The hearings will be held from 10 to 13 August... Read More

Aged care staff have been forced to pay for their own rapid antigen tests despite the government acknowledging the importance of the tests in aged care screening and outbreak management. Read More