As aged care providers prepare for the full impact of the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards and the Aged Care Act 2024, Altura Learning has released its 2026 Course Calendar to support organisations in strengthening workforce capability and demonstrating clinical readiness under increased regulatory scrutiny.
The release comes as providers are facing tighter budgets, longer procurement cycles and rising expectations from regulators and boards to show not just that training has been completed, but that staff have the capability to deliver safe, consistent care. Across the sector, the focus is shifting from training activity to evidence of workforce competence and governance oversight.
Altura Learning’s 2026 calendar reflects this shift, with a structured program of refreshed and newly developed courses aligned to the Strengthened Standards and the requirements of the Aged Care Act 2024. The program focuses on high risk clinical areas, practical decision making and the consistent application of best practice across both residential and community care environments.
“The new regulatory framework has changed the expectations placed on providers,” said Dr Roshmeen Azam, Chief Medical Officer at Altura Learning.
“Boards and executives now need confidence that their workforce can apply standards consistently in real world situations. The calendar has been designed to support this and mitigate clinical and operational risk, reinforce strong governance, and embed best practice standards,” Dr Azam added.
Content is updated to reflect current clinical guidance, incorporate real-world care scenarios and align closely to the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards. Content is updated to reflect current clinical guidance, incorporate real world care scenarios and align closely to the Strengthened Standards.
Scenario based learning and simulated care settings are intended to better reflect the complexity of contemporary aged care practice, while giving providers clearer alignment between training and audit expectations.
Altura Learning’s first course release of 2026, Medication Management in Home Care, addresses one of the sector’s most complex operational challenges.
With many older Australians taking multiple medications and care delivered across dispersed home environments, safe medication practices require strong governance and workforce capability.
The course supports community teams to understand medication reviews, clarify roles across care staff, and strengthen safe administration, storage and incident response in line with the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards.
Supporting HR and governance leaders
For HR and People & Culture teams, the calendar provides a clearer annual roadmap linked to onboarding, role based capability and workforce risk management. For clinical governance leads and executives, it offers documented alignment to regulatory reform and stronger evidence to support audit processes. To learn more, the course calendar can be accessed here: https://www.alturalearning.com/2026-course-calendar/
Altura Learning supports more than 150,000 learners across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland with practical, clinically focused, video based learning designed to reflect real world care environments.
About Altura Learning
Altura Learning is a clinically led workforce capability and assurance partner for the aged care sector. Through refreshed, evidence based content and structured annual renewal, Altura supports providers to strengthen clinical consistency, mitigate risk and embed person centred, best practice care across their organisations.
Reach out to Dr Roshmeen Azam at [email protected] to discuss your learning and development plans for this year.
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