Month: July 2016

The Department of Health has released a new edition of its ‘Information for Aged Care Providers’ newsletter.

Read more:

Information for Aged Care Providers – Issue #2016/13 (.pdf)

The Victorian Government has established the $200 million Regional Health Infrastructure Fund as part of its commitment to better health for people in rural and regional Victoria.

The fund will provide upgrades for rural and regional hospitals to ensure Victorians, regardless of where they live, have access to quality health care when they need it.

Funding will assist regional and rural health services to improve:

– safety and quality of services
– service capacity
– models of care
– patient and staff amenity and
– service efficiency.

Projects will be determined through application-based funding rounds, with rural and regional hospitals and health services and agencies able to make submissions.

Applications close 29 August 2016.

Read more:

Victorian Government: Regional Health Infrastructure Fund

From 1 July 2016 Ageing and Aged Care content will be moved from the Department of Social Services website to the Department of Health’s platform at agedcare.health.gov.au.

This is due to Machinery of Government changes which moved the responsibility for Ageing and Aged Care from the Department of Social Services to the Department of Health. The switchover will not be instantaneous as it can take some time for pages to appear. You will be able to continue to access content from the DSS site until the migration is complete. There will be re-directs in place if you use an old DSS url.

agedcare.health.gov.au

 

The Department of Health has released a new edition of its ‘Information for Aged Care Providers’ newsletter.

Read more:

Information for Aged Care Providers – Issue #2016/12 (.pdf)

The Australian Aged Care Quality Agency has released the June 2016 issue of their ‘Quality Standard’ newsletter.

Read more:

Quality Standard – June 2016 (.pdf)