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Concerns regarding exploitation of the #agedcare funding system & repeated calls for accountability & transparency R well founded. A brief (by all means not comprehensive) history on #rorting or 'maximising' in aged & home care @JasonWardCICTAR @anmf_federal
(2012) Nursing homes: The manner in which govt was prepared to turn a blind eye to #rorting in #agedcare was revealed when employees in the Health dept blew the whistle on ABC @4corners in 2012 web.archive.org/web/2019070807…
Few important things going on in #agedcare lately:
1) Bupa ANZ continues to top our list of worst-performing aged care providers, with 39 sanctions & penalties in the last three years - and an underlying profit of $407m in FY2021 #auspol #agedcarerc
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1) Bupa ANZ continues to top our list of worst-performing aged care providers, with 39 sanctions & penalties in the last three years - and an underlying profit of $407m in FY2021 #auspol #agedcarerc
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Those playing along at home will know Bupa has been besieged with abuse scandals, sanctions, and care failures. Its homes keep being reaccredited. Occasionally its funding is frozen. It does "apologise" every time, though, so there's that. #auspol
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It's also been trying to offload its NZ #agedcare homes, with Macquarie Capital sounding out investors including EQT and a Japanese firm - but there were no takers. There's been chatter about it dumping its Australian homes in the past too #auspol theaustralian.com.au/business/datar…
Re: @Senator_Patrick’s calls for a Royal Commission into Australia’s COVID response:
We’ve just had a $120m+ 3 yr RC into #agedcare. Morrison is yet to front a presser & answer questions about its recs. Reform-wise, the govt has cherry-picked easy fixes w/ no scrutiny #auspol
We’ve just had a $120m+ 3 yr RC into #agedcare. Morrison is yet to front a presser & answer questions about its recs. Reform-wise, the govt has cherry-picked easy fixes w/ no scrutiny #auspol
The thing about RCs and inquiries is they’ve got to produce systemic change. Otherwise they’re expensive fact-finding missions that tell us what we already know.
Look at all 17 major inquiries into aged care preceding the RC. All identified the same issues and made similar recs.
Look at all 17 major inquiries into aged care preceding the RC. All identified the same issues and made similar recs.
What’s the Morrison govt’s score card in implementing major reforms after its own RCs?
Abysmal.
Banking RC? More than half Hayne’s recommendations abandoned or not implemented. Aged care RC? Major recs like on-site nurses 24/7 rejected. Not even a presser from the PM. #auspol
Abysmal.
Banking RC? More than half Hayne’s recommendations abandoned or not implemented. Aged care RC? Major recs like on-site nurses 24/7 rejected. Not even a presser from the PM. #auspol
If the Commonwealth's central response to the Aged Care Royal Commission is $10bn to the sector over the next five years, the RC has been for nought.
Giving providers billions without increased regulation and transparency will fix nothing. #auspol smh.com.au/politics/feder…
Giving providers billions without increased regulation and transparency will fix nothing. #auspol smh.com.au/politics/feder…
The Commonwealth's response to the aged care crisis over many years has been to roll out successive "funding boosts."
The sector needs a complete overhaul, not a $10bn payday. Where is the federal government's commitment to a new Aged Care Act? #auspol #agedcarerc
The sector needs a complete overhaul, not a $10bn payday. Where is the federal government's commitment to a new Aged Care Act? #auspol #agedcarerc
It's been two months since the #agedcarerc's final report.
The totality of the Morrison govt's response to the report has been an initial announcement of a circa $452m "funding boost," and now this leaked preview of the budget, with a further $10bn "funding boost". #auspol
The totality of the Morrison govt's response to the report has been an initial announcement of a circa $452m "funding boost," and now this leaked preview of the budget, with a further $10bn "funding boost". #auspol
Today, the Morrison Government released the final report of the Aged Care Royal Commission. The ABC’s @anneconnollyabc has been reporting this story for years, and she was at the PM’s press conference today to ask questions that need to be asked. #abc730
"I think the main finding of the report that's so shocking is the way it castigates the lack of governmental leadership on the issue of aged care, which has been really endemic over the last 20 years." - @the_shb, aged care advocate #abc730
Today, PM @ScottMorrisonMP chose to hold his press conference today before the #AgedCareRC report was made publicly available.
@anneconnollyabc asks: "How can we ask questions that are relevant to what's in the report without knowing what's in it?" #abc730
@anneconnollyabc asks: "How can we ask questions that are relevant to what's in the report without knowing what's in it?" #abc730
So the minister who had NO PLAN to prevent outbreaks in aged care, made PPE training voluntary, put no policy in place regarding hospital transfers, and didn't even know the numbers of deaths, is now pointing fingers.
THE TEMERITY. #auspol #agedcarerc
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THE TEMERITY. #auspol #agedcarerc
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In case anyone needs a reminder, Colbeck:
- Put no national plan in place for COVID in aged care
- Couldn't even say whether he'd briefed Cabinet about the Royal Commission's interim report
- Did not know the number of aged care deaths in Senate hearings - not once, but TWICE
- Put no national plan in place for COVID in aged care
- Couldn't even say whether he'd briefed Cabinet about the Royal Commission's interim report
- Did not know the number of aged care deaths in Senate hearings - not once, but TWICE
- Implemented no meaningful changes after the fatal outbreaks at Newmarch House and Dorothy Henderson Lodge
- Failed to consider how the existing failures in aged care would exacerbate the threat posed by COVID outbreaks
- Failed to provide expert infection control to facilities
- Failed to consider how the existing failures in aged care would exacerbate the threat posed by COVID outbreaks
- Failed to provide expert infection control to facilities
In the spirit of #ThisIsNotJournalism, I give you this #AccuracyMatters mega-thread. I will add journalists and flag their misdeeds over time to give us a look at how #COVID19 reporting has failed to the public interest test, particularly in Victoria.
First up, @samanthamaiden who famously gave us 'findings' from the Hotel Quarantine Inquiry months before they will exist: 
Next we have @Adam_Creighton who tried to make a point by quoting a political activist known for his extremist views, and who bashed his spouse with a chopping board. Creighton has not retracted or apologised.
Yesterday, Morrison referred to the Australian Health Sector Emergency Response Plan for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) as part of the government's "comprehensive plan" for aged care.
The phrase "aged care" only occurs in this document 20 times. Here they are:
#auspol #agedcarerc
The phrase "aged care" only occurs in this document 20 times. Here they are:
#auspol #agedcarerc
1. Aged care lumped into a list of groups that may require special strategies.
2. Aged care mentioned as an area that might be "stretched to capacity" in the case of wide spread.
I'm having a read through of the CDNA National Guidelines, touted by Brendan Murphy today at the #agedcarerc as a "comprehensive national plan" for COVID in aged care.
First of all, these are clearly guidelines, not a plan; they say so repeatedly.
#auspol #agedcarerc
First of all, these are clearly guidelines, not a plan; they say so repeatedly.
#auspol #agedcarerc
Secondly, the entire document itself is only 44 pages long. If you subtract the posters at the end from the WHO on hand washing and coughing and sneezing, it is 39 pages long.
Minus appendices, it is 20 pages long. "Comprehensive"? Hardly. #auspol #agedcarerc
Minus appendices, it is 20 pages long. "Comprehensive"? Hardly. #auspol #agedcarerc
The onus to manage COVID is placed squarely on providers:
"The primary responsibility of managing COVID outbreaks lies with the RCF...All RCF should have access to infection control expertise, whether in-house or not, and outbreak management plans in place." #auspol #agedcarerc
"The primary responsibility of managing COVID outbreaks lies with the RCF...All RCF should have access to infection control expertise, whether in-house or not, and outbreak management plans in place." #auspol #agedcarerc
Aged Care Minister Colbeck said he was "shocked" by the neglect revealed in the #agedcarerc Interim Report.
He insisted providers were "doing well across the board" in May, and made no federal COVID aged care plan.
At what point does naiveté become incompetence? #auspol
He insisted providers were "doing well across the board" in May, and made no federal COVID aged care plan.
At what point does naiveté become incompetence? #auspol
Remember, Colbeck is part of the government that CALLED the #agedcarerc due to systemic neglect - yet he had the gall to claim he was "shocked" by the findings of its interim report.
If he were across his portfolio, NOTHING in that report should have shocked him. #auspol
If he were across his portfolio, NOTHING in that report should have shocked him. #auspol
Colbeck has made no inroads in the three areas of "urgent action" identified by @RoyalAged:
- young ppl w/ disabilities trapped in aged care
- over-reliance on chemical and physical restraint
- 100k+ older Australians languishing on the home care waitlist #auspol #agedcarerc
- young ppl w/ disabilities trapped in aged care
- over-reliance on chemical and physical restraint
- 100k+ older Australians languishing on the home care waitlist #auspol #agedcarerc
1/13: Following the introduction of the 1997 #AgedCareAct which abolished all economic & staffing accountability, was the 2013 euphemistically called 'Living Longer Living Better' reforms which led to a greater commercialisation of the sector #LLLB
2/13: Catchphrases and a PR campaign using ‘choice’ and ‘control’ as the drivers were used to justify further intense marketisation and a greater shift to user pays under the #LLLB reforms #agedcareRC #auspol
3/13: The greatest deterioration of care has been since the introduction of the market based #LLLB reforms by #MarkButler which were progressed with great vigour by Fifield & Abbott govt #auspol #agedcareRC #auspol formerministers.dss.gov.au/15712/professo…
@aasgaabuse #agedcareRC #Discrimination #EqualRights #auspol #agedCareRC @VicOmbudsman @MartiOakley @criprights @inclusionSENB @agedcarecrisis @DRC_AU @hrw @the_shb @Stewart17Oakden @Anneconnollyabc @adele_ferguson @IntlCrimCourt @CIDvouce @WWDA_au
1: AUSTRALIA - AUSTRALIA - AUSTRALIA
2000: Sydney Morning Herald 2000
(((. Witnesses tell shocking tales about Guardian )))
2000: Sydney Morning Herald 2000
(((. Witnesses tell shocking tales about Guardian )))
2: Parliamentary Inquiry witness, Meryl Gordon, said
her 84-year-old mother, previously in reasonable
health, had b into guardianship after a social worker
lodged an application with the Guardianship Tribunal.
her 84-year-old mother, previously in reasonable
health, had b into guardianship after a social worker
lodged an application with the Guardianship Tribunal.
@IntlCrimCourt @BenGauntlettDDC @Jordonsteele @_ADAAustralia @HChristinaR @DavidJanetzkiMP @CIDvoice @PWDAustralia @WWDA_AU
@aasgaabuse #agedcareRC #Discrimination #EqualRights #auspol #agedCareRC @VicOmbudsman @MartiOakley @criprights @inclusionSENB @agedcarecrisis @DRC_AU @hrw @the_shb @Stewart17Oakden @Anneconnollyabc @adele_ferguson
1: Over the last 3 decades, many Older Australian Home Owners, worked hard, paid taxes, over 18% interest on mortgages, raised & educated their children, only to have everything they worked for,
SNATCHED FROM THEM & THEIR FAMILY HOMES,
SNATCHED FROM THEM & THEIR FAMILY HOMES,
Here I am with my dad, in the year I decided standing on one foot in photos was going to be my thing.
My dad endured my flamingo phase in bemused silence. He always stood beside me, even through my most ill-begotten ideas. #agedcarerc
My dad endured my flamingo phase in bemused silence. He always stood beside me, even through my most ill-begotten ideas. #agedcarerc
He was also brilliant. His PhD looked like this: page after page of insane equations, theorising the movement of particles in fluid.
I have never known anybody who loved working as much as my dad. His favourite saying was ‘it’s only work if you don’t enjoy it.’ #agedcarerc
I have never known anybody who loved working as much as my dad. His favourite saying was ‘it’s only work if you don’t enjoy it.’ #agedcarerc
All through my childhood, he read voraciously. He composed piano concertos for fun. He taught me to love the life of the mind.
His idea of a relaxing road trip was teaching me to solve algebraic equations from behind the wheel. His brain never stopped. Until it did #agedcarerc
His idea of a relaxing road trip was teaching me to solve algebraic equations from behind the wheel. His brain never stopped. Until it did #agedcarerc
1/6 Senator Gibbs was a strong advocate for the vulnerable and disadvantaged. She realised what was going to happen in aged care and spoke out strongly when the 1997 Aged Care Bill was introduced parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/searc… #agedcareRC
2/6 Gibbs gave a telling & prophetic speech in parliament in which she aptly referred to George Orwell’s book '1984' as she described the way the words 'nursing care' had disappeared from the discourse about aged care parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/searc… #agedcareRC
3/6 Prophetically Gibbs spoke of "managers with no nursing experience. No longer do nursing homes have to employ a qualified director of nursing who will ensure that professional standards are met" parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/searc… #agedcareRC
The #Greens have today launched our human rights based approach to Aged Care including 50,000 home care packages and a pay rise for aged care workers bit.ly/CaringforOlder… #auspol #agedcare #AgedCareRC
It's been clear for years now that there are significant issues within the aged care sector and for too long aged care has been put in the too hard basket. We can’t keep tinkering around the edges. We need a comprehensive plan for how we are going to care for older Australians.
Our plan: 1. Guarantees a human rights based approach to aged care 2. Provides funding for an additional 50,000 Level 3 and 4 Home Care Packages over three years at a cost of $5.491billion
