Podcast

In our work with aged care providers and retirement village operators, we are often asked to review a variety of commercial contracts, such as contractor agreements to provide services, labour hire type arrangements to provide staff and software licence agreements.

There are a few issues that...

In this episode, we discuss the new model for representatives proposed in the Australian Government's first consultation paper on the new Aged Care Act.

As providers would be familiar with, the current Aged Care Act has a range of concepts for representatives.

The consultation paper outlines...

In this episode, we discuss the issue of a home care provider being unable to make contact with a home care recipient or their representative for an extended period of time. 

New guidance on this issue was included in the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care's Home Care Packages...

1 July 2023 is a significant date in terms of aged care governance. 

Within 4 months of that date, most aged care provider organisations (those whose ‘reporting period’ concludes on 30 June) will be required to give their first statement (compliance statement) as to whether the organisatio...

In this episode, we discuss the obligations of approved providers under the Aged Care Act in relation to suitability of key personnel. 

As we approach the 12 month anniversary of the commencement of the new ‘suitability matters’ regime, we thought it would be useful to revisit these requireme...

In this episode, we look at the new NDIS restrictive practices authorisation scheme that has commenced in South Australia.

This scheme is relevant to any NDIS providers, including dual NDIS and aged care providers, that operate in South Australia and use one or more restrictive practices for an ...

In this episode, we talk about issues that home care providers should start to consider now, pending the release of the changes to the Quality of Care Principles and the commencement of the incident management and Serious Incident Response Scheme requirements for home care.

These changes are par...

In this episode, we discuss the changes to the requirements for key personnel of approved providers. 

In particular, we talk about the suitability test that is due to replace the disqualified individual test. 

These changes are part of the Aged Care Royal Commission Response No. 2 Bill that the...

In this episode, we look at requests for health records and visitor records in residential care by family members in disputed estates in South Australia.

We focus on:

• who has the capacity to speak on behalf of the estate;
• access to health records;
• access to visitor records being maintained
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In this episode, we look at the requirement to obtain informed consent to the use of restrictive practices in residential care under the Quality of Care Principles.  A key issue we consider is when informed consent can be obtained in South Australia without having to go to the South Australian Ci...