Rural health matters and rural people deserve more. Of everything.
Kon Kontis and Vicky Kos were ordered to give evidence at the coronial inquest into the deaths of 50 aged care residents during a coronavirus outbreak at the St Basil’s Homes for the Aged.
With the aged care death toll now well over 500,Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck remains under pressure over the handling of outbreaks in aged care facilities.
Fewer than two-thirds of the nation’s 190,000 aged care residents have received a booster shot,leaving almost 80,000 exposed to serious illness or death from COVID-19 as Omicron sweeps through the sector.
Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck says he “continued to pay attention to aged care” while at a three-day Ashes Test as Omicron swept through the sector.
A former member of the Australian Defence Force has appeared in court charged with defrauding a 95-year-old man.
There are 2622 COVID-19 patients in NSW hospitals,including 170 in intensive care units. The figures are from a 20-hour period after NSW Health moved its cut-off time.
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation assistant secretary Lori-Anne Sharp says the payments of up to $400 each,to be paid this month and again in May,will not convince staff to keep working in distressing conditions.
Respect includes rewarding a person’s work appropriately all the time,not when the mood takes you.
Jane’s aged care facility’s chief executive took matters into her own hands and organised boosters through a local GP when fellow residents were told they would have to wait until February for their booster.
More than 200,000 workers in aged care services will receive a cash bonus within weeks as the Coalition deals with community anger about soaring virus infections.