News

Media Release: 15 May 2018

Aged Care Minister Ken Wyatt AM is calling on young Australians to consider diverse and exciting new careers in the rapidly growing aged care sector.

Launching Australia’s first aged care Next Gen Young Leaders Forum in Perth today, Minister Wyatt said strong, long-term demand and the promise of new professional pathways made the sector an ideal employment choice.

“We are entering a golden age of ageing,” said Minister Wyatt. “In WA alone it’s projected employment in health, aged care and social assistance will reach more than 180,000 by 2022, as our population ages and the sector becomes increasingly diverse.

Read more:

Wanted: The Next Generation of Young Aged Care Leaders (.pdf)

Media Release: 15 May 2018

Ensuring thousands of new residential aged care places are located where they are most needed is the aim of a national consultation process underway from today.

Minister for Aged Care, Ken Wyatt AM, said a wide range of aged care stakeholders were invited to take part, to help inform the 2018-19 Aged Care Approvals Round (ACAR), announced in the Turnbull Government’s 2018–19 Budget.

Funding for aged care will increase by $5 billion over the next four years, including for 13,500 new residential aged care places, 775 short term restorative care places and a further $60 million in capital investment, to be made available in this ACAR.

Minister Wyatt said the results of the consultation would help guide the distribution and targeting of new places and capital grants in each state and territory.

Read more:

Consultations on Location of New Aged Care Places (.pdf)

2018–19 ACAR Consultation—Identifying Residential Aged Care Needs

The Minister for Aged Care, the Hon Ken Wyatt AM, MP has announced the opening of the 2018-19 ACAR consultation to ensure thousands of new residential aged care places are located where they are most needed.

A short survey is now open on the Consultation Hub. The survey closes on Monday, 28 May 2018.

Read more:

Invitation to participate in ACAR consultation

Media Release: 08 May 2018

The 2018–19 Budget is guaranteeing the essential health services that Australians rely on, with a $12.4 billion increase in the Health Budget and a $414.5 billion investment in health, aged care and sport.

We will increase:

• Medicare funding by $4.8 billion;
• public hospital funding by more than $30 billion;
• investment in new medicines by $2.4 billion; and
• funding for aged care by $5.0 billion.

Read more:

Guaranteeing essential services – record investment in health (.pdf)

Other Budget Articles:

HCM – $5 Billion For The Aged Care Sector – But Is It Enough?

AAA – Budget: Funding for providers to implement new quality standards

AAA – Budget: Government provides more funding to improve aged care payments system

AAA – Budget: Residential places to go to consumers, new bond levy for providers

ACG – Budget brings “mixed emotions” for aged care

ABC – Budget 2018: Aged-care sector gets $1.6b to assist older Australians with services in their own homes

As part of the mandatory vaccination program, residential aged care providers will be required to keep a record of the number of staff and volunteers that receive a flu vaccination each year (whether or not under the Flu Vaccination Program).

This record keeping can be made very easy by using our 2 features which capture vaccinations for both Clients and Staff.

These features can be found in:

1. Clients: Care > Monitoring > Medical > Vaccinations
2. Staff/Volunteers: Personnel > Vaccinations

If you are still unsure about this feature then please contact the Help Desk on 1300 MANAD2 (1300 62 62 32) or support@manad.com.au

Please note the next minor version update of Manad Plus (v5.6) will now require Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1 to be installed.

Please notify your IT Administrator so they can prepare for this next time they are planning updates to your infrastructure. We have not set a release date yet for v5.6 so they can add this to their usual planning of Windows updates over the coming months, if it is not already installed.

(NOTE: this is not required for the upcoming rates update.)

See: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.1

Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows 7 SP1 (x86 and x64)
• Windows 8.1 (x86 and x64)
• Windows 10 Anniversary Update (x86 and x64)
• Windows 10 Creators Update (x86 and x64)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (x64)
• Windows Server 2012 (x64)
• Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)
• Windows Server 2016 (x64)

As always, if your IT ever have any questions then please email these to support@manad.com.au.

We use an application called Zendesk for the Manad Plus Help Centre. This is where you can access Release Notes, Help Documentation and submit support tickets.

IMPORTANT: Zendesk has announced the deprecation of TLS support version 1.0 and 1.1 from June 14th onwards. As a result of the change, Zendesk will no longer operate on older browsers.

To continue to securely access Zendesk, users must use a modern browser version that supports TLS version 1.2 or above to access Zendesk after June 14th. The minimum browser versions include browsers such as Internet Explorer 11, Mozilla Firefox 27, Google Chrome 30 or Apple Safari 7.

Both our Android & iOS Apps have received a minor update with an update to error logging tool used. This new version is now available in both App Stores.

The current Manad Plus Mobile App versions are:

• Android – Google Play Store: 1.8.115.1
• Apple – iTunes App Store: 1.8.115.1

The App version is compatible with the desktop version: v5.5.53231.0 or higher.

Microsoft will soon no longer be releasing security updates for any version of SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2, which means you may be out of compliance with industry regulations such as the upcoming GDPR.

Extended support will end on: July 9, 2019.

Do you need to start planning now to upgrade your SQL Database version?

Read more:

Prepare for SQL Server 2008 end of support

In Case You Missed It – Below are links to recent articles on Aged Care and Healthcare that may be of interest.

Australian Ageing Agenda

Workforce strategy urges action on funding, remote issues

Aged care providers urgently need a cyber resilience strategy

Aged care’s most pet-friendly states identified

Providers back compulsory flu vaccination program

Other

ABC – Aged care workers join bosses to plead for more funding

9News – Aged-care homes must offer staff flu jab

SMH – All aged-care homes must offer staff flu vaccinations, Turnbull government orders

ABC – Queensland patients waiting for aged care placement would take up entire hospital

ITNews – Vic govt commits $124m to e-health records