Sector Moves & People

Janet Anderson out, new Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner in

The inaugural Commissioner of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, Janet Anderson PSM, will depart the role next month after six years in favour of a new face.

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Lauren Broomham

13 Dec 2024

Community Living

2024 Year in Review: Community Living

The Weekly SOURCE looks back at the past 12 months in the community living sector. With its momentum hampered by high interest rates, the retirement living sector in October came under attack from the ABC, aided and abetted by Centre Alliance...

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Ian Horswill

16 Dec 2024

Sector Moves & People

The man who stalled Aspen’s takeover of Eureka wants to buy back their shares to emerge as Eureka’s biggest shareholder

A General Meeting is being held on Friday, 20 December, to decide if Ben and Blake Cottle’s investment entity Fileton can buy the shares. It will mean he and his associates have increased their voting power in Eureka from approximately 22.2% to...

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Ian Horswill

17 Dec 2024

Home Care

Late March release of Support at Home detail leaves 62 working days for implementation

The Department of Health and Aged Care has revealed that “advice on pricing will be provided before the end of the year ahead of more detailed advice by the end of March 2025” in a Support at Home webinar held last Thursday 5 December. The advice...

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Caroline Egan

12 Dec 2024

Sector Moves & People

Which aged care provider has been awarded a $136M contract to conduct assessments under new Single Assessment System?

The Department of Health and Aged Care has released details of contracts worth nearly $1.5 billion awarded to operators to conduct aged care assessments under the new Single Assessment System. The largest contract, worth more than $226 million, was...

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Caroline Egan

12 Dec 2024

Sector Moves & People

Two key Dept architects of the aged care reforms are moving to new jobs

Michael Lye, the Deputy Secretary, Ageing and Aged Care, and Nick Morgan, Assistant Secretary, Support at Home Reform, with the Department of Health and Aged Care (DoHAC) have new jobs in the public sector that will shift them away from aged care, only months before significant reforms are scheduled to be implemented.

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Caroline Egan

11 Dec 2024

Sector Moves & People

Carrington Care’s Raad Richards announces his retirement

Under Raad’s leadership, the provider has successfully rolled out an assisted living model through its Riverview Assisted Living Apartments (pictured), built in partnership with long-time builder Richard Crookes Constructions, which is set to be...

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Lauren Broomham

10 Dec 2024

Community Living

“Doing dad proud”: Peter Inge announces IP Living, a new $300M retirement living operator

Investment business Palisade Impact has agreed to set up a $300 million retirement living platform in partnership with the family-owned Zig Inge Group, whose late founder is credited with pioneering retirement living assets starting in 1979. Peter...

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Ian Horswill

09 Dec 2024

Sector Moves & People

Not For Profit Calvary Health Care joins the Retirement Living Council

The Not For Profit’s retirement living portfolio includes 17 sites in the ACT, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. “To remain relevant and viable in this changing landscape of health and ageing, combined with policy changes and funding...

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Ian Horswill

09 Dec 2024

Sector Moves & People

Exclusive: Bolton Clarke Group CEO Stephen Muggleton to retire in 2025

Stephen has transformed Bolton Clarke, an amalgamation of RSL Care Queensland and the Royal District Nursing Service Victoria (RDNS), into Australia’s largest independent Not For Profit provider of aged care during his 14-year tenure. He has led the...

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Ian Horswill

05 Dec 2024

Sector Moves & People

AMP Chief Risk Officer Julia Pryor appointed Chair of Benetas

Ms Pryor replaces Michael Urwin, who has been in the role of Chair for six years and with the Victorian Not For Profit for nine, and has helped navigate Benitas through a complex and challenging period. The former headmaster will remain on the board for...

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Caroline Egan

05 Dec 2024

Government Policy

DoHAC mum for now on tender outcomes as Single Assessment System begins next Monday

Aged care assessments for both home care and residential aged care will begin through the Single Assessment System workforce next Monday, but the Department of Health and Aged Care has not yet made public details about which organisations have been awarded tenders to deliver the assessments.

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Caroline Egan

05 Dec 2024

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