Tag: Richard Colbeck
$34m aged care research centre to improve workforce outcomes
The Aged Care Centre for Growth and Translational Research (CGTR) will open at Flinders University early next year, with a focus on...
National Aged Care Advisory Council members announced
Seventeen prominent Australians will provide advice on aged care issues and the implementation of the Government’s $17.7 billion reform agenda in response...
Aged care workforce increasingly skilled
The aged care workforce has become more permanent and younger over the last five years, according to new workforce statistics.
Giving back with a career in aged care
For Shaun Lacey, working in aged care has always been about giving back.
The 25-year veteran of the industry...
Government’s response to the Royal Commission’s final report
Additional audits of residential aged care and home care and a fund for financially stressed providers will be rolled out immediately as...
Funding model still in limbo in Royal Commission’s final report
Australia’s $1 billion royal commission into aged care has failed to map out a consistent path to regulate and pay for quality...
Updated: Aged care vaccinations start next week – initial locations across Australia
Around 240 residential aged care facilities among the first to receive vaccinations in the first week, commencing Monday - February 22.
Lowest aged care occupancy rates in a decade
Occupancy rates for residential aged care in 2020 dropped to the lowest rate in a decade.
Australia’s Productivity Commission...
Thank you from Minister Colbeck
The Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians, Senator the Hon Richard Colbeck, has today written to aged care workers to personally...
Hunt and Colbeck to share responsibility for aged care
More hands to the wheel with Prime Minister Scott Morrison announcing that aged care will be elevated to cabinet and health minister...
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