Legal & Compliance

A public consultation period has opened with the Department of Health and Aged Care seeking feedback on three new staffing quality indicators that will be part of an expanded Quality Indicator Program.

The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has reinforced its stance on how non-compliance impacts star ratings with Peter Edwards, Executive Director of Compliance Management Group breaking down their reasoning.

The top issues of concern in the Exposure Draft of the Aged Care Act have been identified in a freshly released Key Issues Paper from a group of leading organisations and individuals, including COTA Australia and OPAN.

Charles Maskell-Knight focuses on the objects, rights, and principles set out in the exposure draft, and how these have departed from the Royal Commission’s recommendations.

Having a simple, reliable measure of the quality of care an aged care home provides is crucial in working out whether you are going to get good value.

A report has found serious inaccuracies in the aged care Star Ratings system with a significant number of aged care facilities receiving positive Star Ratings despite being non-compliant.

Introduced in 2019, the Aged Care Quality Standards are about to undergo a major overhaul after the Government published a refined final draft of the strengthened Standards.

Mel Metz explored key elements of the draft in the New Aged Care Act and Support at Home Program update and we have broken down her insights.

The Government recently announced the new Support at Home program would be delayed by an additional 12 months and will be released in two stages from 2025.

The Government has released its exposure draft for the new Aged Care Act, with all interested parties called on to provide their feedback before the final stages of refining and completing the reinvigorated Act take place.