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Regis Aged Care revises plans for 99-bed, $33M Belrose home on Sydney’s Northern Beaches

Australia’s only publicly listed aged care provider has lodged plans with Northern Beaches Council to alter previously approved plans for Melrose Manor aged care facility, in Belrose, 19km north east of the Sydney CBD, including refining the design...

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Home Care

Older Australians face “harrowing” issues accessing aged care services: OPAN report

“It is disappointing to see that yet again, people are struggling to have clear communication and information from their aged care providers,“ said OPAN CEO Craig Gear

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Government warns FWC plan to increase nurse wages from 2025 could see aged care homes close

The Australian Government Solicitor (AGS) Paul Vermeesch and the Aged and Community Care Providers Association (ACCPA), as ‘Joint Employers’, have made submissions to the Fair Work Commission warning against the implementation of the proposed wage rises for nurses from 1 January 2025.

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Sector Moves & People

Recruiting aged care staff from overseas is unsustainable: RFBI

Royal Freemasons’ Benevolent Institution (RFBI) CEO Frank Price says recruiting staff from overseas is not sustainable, even as the Not For Profit brings another 106 nurses into Australia from Fiji, making a total of 166 staff recruited from...

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Mergers & Acquisitions

integratedliving acquires St Andrew’s home care operations in NSW Northern Rivers region

Home care specialist integratedliving has acquired the home care operations of Ballina-based Not For Profit St Andrew’s. In transitioning out of home care, St Andrew’s will retain its focus on residential aged care and retirement living on the NSW...

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Home Care

Profit for Purpose home care and disability provider genU reports $30M loss

Melbourne-based profit for purpose genU, which provides disability and aged care services right across Australia, reported a comprehensive loss for the year of $29.2 million, compared with a loss of $6.1 million the previous year. Ingrid Williams...

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Cleaning and gardening caps a headache for Health and Aged Care Minister in ABC Radio interview

The Health and Aged Care Minister Mark Butler was again grilled by ABC Radio’s David Bevan in Adelaide this week, this time over the domestic assistance caps of 52 hours for cleaning per year and 18 hours for gardening proposed in the Aged Care Bill...

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The clock is ticking: Aged Care Bill headed to Australian Senate

The Aged Care Bill has been read a third time in the House of Representatives and is expected to be scheduled for debate in the Senate next week.

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Every day, nearly 10 older Australians died waiting for their correct level of home care in 2023-24

As Senators questioned Ian Yates, Acting Inspector General of Aged Care, about demand-driven home care in Budget Estimates last week, a shocking figure was revealed. Thea Connolly, First Assistant Secretary Home and Residential with the Department...

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Sector Moves & People

PresCare training innovation helps Apollo Care homes reduce agency use

Not For Profit PresCare, part of the Apollo Care group, along with Riverside Christian College and TAFE Queensland have formed a partnership to establish a ‘Health Hub’ where students can receive hands-on experience at...

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Legal Issues

Policeman charged over Taser death of aged care resident Clare Nowland claims use of force was reasonable

There is no dispute 34-year-old Senior Constable Kristian White discharged his stun gun at great-grandmother Clare Nowland at the Yallambee Lodge aged-care home in the southern NSW town of Cooma, 114km south of Canberra, in the early hours of May...

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Aged Care

Sector short 1,500 nurses: “Where have you found 2,553 RNs in the last six months?”

Information the Department of Health and Aged Care provided to Coalition Senator Anne Ruston, Shadow Minister for Aged Care, prior to last week’s Budget Estimates showed the aged care sector is estimated to be short 1,490 RNs in 2024-25. Senator...

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