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When a home care client is unable to be contacted for an extended period - what is the government guidance on this issue and what steps should home care providers take?
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...
Aged Care Governance 2023 - the challenge of management knowledge and Board accountability
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...
SIRS in home care is coming soon
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...
New suitability test for key personnel of aged care providers
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...