Sector Moves & People

Good news for aged care providers: Butler streamlines process to employ overseas Registered Nurses

From March 2025, nurses with relevant qualifications and experience from ‘comparable countries’, will no longer have to sit additional exams or upgrade their qualifications to gain registration to work in Australia, said Health and Aged Care Minister Mark Butler.

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Caroline Egan

30 Jan 2025

Sector Moves & People

The late Paul Johnson, former COO BallyCara, posthumously awarded Medal of the Order of Australia

Paul Johnson, who drove significant growth at Not For Profit aged care provider BallyCara in the decade he spent with the group, has posthumously been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his services to ‘aged welfare’.

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Caroline Egan

30 Jan 2025

Sector Moves & People

Eureka’s Chief Financial Officer and Joint Company Secretary resigns

In a statement to the ASX on Friday, the only pure-play seniors’ rental village operator announced Laura Fanning had left the business ”to pursue new opportunities”. Laura will remain the role she has held for six-and-a-half years until late...

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Ian Horswill

27 Jan 2025

Sector Moves & People

The best advertisement a retirement village could have

Residents are a retirement village operator’s greatest asset. Gloria Heward, a resident at Alino Living’s Adelene Independent Living Village in Wyoming, 4km from Gosford, wrote a letter to Community Coast News capturing what retirement living is all about. Its contents are a great advertisement for the operator.

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Ian Horswill

15 Jan 2025

Sector Moves & People

Silverchain Group appoint Haydn Chrystal as Chair after Anne Skipper AM’s retirement

Australia’s leading provider of in-home health and aged care has announced its new Chair after the retirement of Anne Skipper AM who has chaired the business for more than 14 years. “It has been an incredible privilege to Chair first RDNS and...

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Ian Horswill

20 Jan 2025

Sector Moves & People

Lifestyle Communities announce pay for Chair David Blight’s role as Executive Chair

David, who was appointed Chair in July last year, will assume the role as Executive Chair until a new CEO is appointed. Co-Founder and Managing Director James Kelly retired on 31 December, 2024. He co-founded the land lease community business over...

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Ian Horswill

14 Jan 2025

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