With more and more wound care taking place in a community setting, we sit down with Jan Rice, a wound care expert, to find out more about effective wound management in the real world of aged care.
With a total of 19 residents deaths and 71 staff members and residents testing positive for COVID-19, the situation that unfolded at Anglicare’s Newmarch House has become a case study in what can happen when infection control goes wrong in an Australian aged care home. The recent Four Corners exposé entitled ‘Like the Plague’...
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Federal Health Minister, Sussan Ley, will be standing aside while as an investigation begins on her travel expenses. There have been new revelations that Ms Ley used taxpayers’ money to fund two trips to the Gold Coast where she celebrated the New Year. As reported on news.com.au, Ms Ley has travelled to the Gold Coast...
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The Morrison Government is providing Australians with more choices for longer lives, with a record 13,500 new residential aged care places across Australia, worth $907 million a year, along with a $60 million capital works investment to finance construction of new and extended aged care homes. The $967 million expansion is part of our Government’s...
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