Sector Moves & People

38 newly qualified aged care staff seek job opportunities in Australia

Labour hire and recruitment firm Labour Solutions Australia (LSA) has trained 100 aged care workers in Honiara, the Solomon Islands, this year, and has a pool of workers with Cert III qualifications seeking employment as soon as January.

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Caroline Egan

28 Nov 2024

Sector Moves & People

Bupa and Ramsay Health Care partner on unique 3-month nurse exchange

Graduates nurses employed with Bupa Villages and Aged Care and Ramsay Health Care will have the opportunity to swap places on three-month exchanges under a new partnership set to begin next year.

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Caroline Egan

28 Nov 2024

Aged Care

“We’ve got favourable winds”: Regis Aged Care Co-Founder Bryan Dorman’s departing words after 30 years

“I think we’ve got favourable winds for a few years ahead,“ he predicted at the meeting, which was held the day after the Government’s Aged Care Bill passed through parliament

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Caroline Egan

28 Nov 2024

Sector Moves & People

ACCPA appoint Mark Sewell (NSW/ACT) and Clare Grieveson (WA) as Directors

The appointments were made at the Annual General Meeting of Aged and Community Care Providers’ Association (ACCPA) on Tuesday. Clare is CEO of Southern Cross Case (WA) Inc and has 30 years’ experience in the health and aged care sectors. Her governance...

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Caroline Egan

21 Nov 2024

Sector Moves & People

KPMG the latest business recruited to help Govt improve its Star Ratings

Dr Rodney Jilek, co-founder of innovative dementia care specialists Community Home Australia, identified problems with the Star Rating system at the beginning of the year. In August, he appeared on the ABC’s 7.30 program saying homes failing to meet...

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Caroline Egan

21 Nov 2024

Government Policy

Aged Care Minister open to increased reporting on home care waiting lists

Aged Care Minister has indicated to ABC radio Aged Care Minister Anika Wells has indicated she supports regularly publishing data on how long older Australians are stuck waiting for Commonwealth-funded aged care supports. The latest data – made...

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Caroline Egan

21 Nov 2024

Sector Moves & People

RetireAustralia CEO Brett Robinson elected rugby union’s most powerful person

Brett is the first person elected Chair of the international federation from the Southern Hemisphere. He described his appointment as “a great privilege and an honour”, before stressing that “work starts today, now”. “There are a list of...

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Ian Horswill

18 Nov 2024

Sector Expert Partners

Register now for the StewartBrown Retirement Living Performance Report

The widely respected aged care benchmarking accountant will now provide an independent survey and report for the retirement living sector advocacy. Operators can join the survey now. This is a significant new initiative in that StewartBrown is the...

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Ian Horswill

10 Nov 2024

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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Caroline Egan

14 Nov 2024

Sector Moves & People

Myth busters: innovative education partnership seeks to increase nursing student interest in aged care

A collaboration on aged care nurse education between NSW regional aged care provider Clarence Village and Southern Cross University (SCU) is aiming to dispel common misconceptions about aged care as a nursing speciality – with positive results...

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Lauren Broomham

14 Nov 2024

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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Caroline Egan

14 Nov 2024

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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Caroline Egan

14 Nov 2024

Sector Expert Partners

East Coast sellouts as VILLAGE SUMMIT 2024 kicks off in Adelaide

Internationally recognised high performance expert and keynote speaker Lisa McInnes-Smith had the audience gripped as DCM Institute’s premier event began in the Crowne Plaza, Adelaide, this morning. High performance is the theme of DCM Instutute’s...

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Ian Horswill

12 Nov 2024