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The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission needs an overhaul
Insight The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission needs an overhaul
Aged care providers are tasked with delivering services to care recipients that exhibit quality and safety attributes. This means that services must have a degree of excellence attached to them and be physically, mentally, emotionally and psychologically safe. In order to achieve this level of quality and safety, the human interactions between carers and care recipients must be kind and attentive, and carers must enjoy the same sense of being safe in all of these dimensions.
Darrell Price
Darrell Price
| 5 min read | 14 Mar 2022
Aged Care 2022 – the pressure remains on
Insight Aged Care 2022 – the pressure remains on
As we commence 2022, the outlook for the aged care sector remains as clouded as it was at the beginning of 2021.
Michael McCann
Darrell Price
| 5 min read | 24 Feb 2022
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety – Opportunity Lost?
Insight The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety – Opportunity Lost?
Many commentators described the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety as a once in a lifetime opportunity to reshape the industry to meet the needs of older Australians now and into the future.
Darrell Price
Darrell Price
| 2 min read | 26 May 2021
A path forward for Health & Aged Care, but not without some remaining obstacles
Federal Budget 2021-22 A path forward for Health & Aged Care, but not without some remaining obstacles
The 2021-2022 Federal Budget provided additional funding for the Health & Aged sector, however there are longer term issues that are yet to be fully resolved. So what’s on offer, and what do we need going forward to ensure quality and safe care for all Australians.
Darrell Price
Darrell Price
| 5 min read | 12 May 2021
Counsel Assisting recommendations are ambitious and likely unfeasible - where to now?
Insight Counsel Assisting recommendations are ambitious and likely unfeasible - where to now?
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (RCACQS) hands down its report on Friday (26 February 2021).
Darrell Price
Darrell Price
| 3 min read | 23 Feb 2021
Is there cause for health sector optimism in a COVID-normal world?
Federal Budget Is there cause for health sector optimism in a COVID-normal world?
The healthcare system in Australia is not without its challenges.
Darrell Price
Darrell Price
| 3 min read | 30 Oct 2020
Is it time to review how we remunerate the Health & Aged Care sector?
mid-sized business report Is it time to review how we remunerate the Health & Aged Care sector?
The Health & Aged care sector is one of the largest employers in Australia and is dominated by small and mid-sized enterprises.
Darrell Price
Darrell Price
| 03 Jun 2019
Grant Thornton Australia
Aged Care Royal Commission Setting the tone for the Aged Care Royal Commission
Last week’s hearings for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, introduced the leaders of some of Australia’s peak bodies, unions, consumer organisations and the Secretary to the Department, Glenys Beauchamp. In all 26 witnesses were called.
Darrell Price
Darrell Price
| 25 Feb 2019
Royal Commission into Aged Care
Aged Care Royal Commission A once in a lifetime opportunity to create a better system of aged care
Today represents the practical start to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (RCACQS) where the Commissioners, the Honourable Richard Tracey AM RFD QC and Ms Lynelle Briggs AO, reiterated the terms of reference and outlined the key areas.
Darrell Price
Darrell Price
| 18 Jan 2019
Financing aged care growth
Insight Tapping into existing networks highlighted at LASA
The Leading Age Services Australia (LASA) Congress in Adelaide last week could not have better timed following the announcement in October of the Royal Commission into aged care quality and safety.
Darrell Price
Darrell Price
| 05 Nov 2018
Stress testing your strategy
Client Alert Stress testing your strategy
So, you’ve got a strategy…with clear objectives…and a plan on how to achieve them…with measures so you will know that you have…but have you considered the consequences if you’re wrong?
Darrell Price
Darrell Price
| 3 min read | 06 Dec 2016