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13 January 2025
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission is taking regulatory action against residential aged care providers that have persistently failed to meet their mandatory care minutes targets.
31 October 2024
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has released its latest aged care complaints report - ‘Complaints about aged care – Year in review (July 2023-June 2024)’.
26 September 2024
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has released its latest Sector Performance Report for the April to June 2024 quarter. For the first time, the report includes performance data for the last two financial years, showing growing evidence of improvements in the quality and safety of aged care but also shining a light on areas of underperformance by providers.
26 September 2024
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has released its latest Sector Performance Report for the April to June 2024 quarter.
20 June 2024
There is no excuse for any residential aged care service to be under-prepared for COVID-19.
3 June 2024
Today, the Minister for Aged Care, the Hon Anika Wells MP, announced that the Government had accepted all 32 recommendations of the
20 May 2024
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has released its latest aged care complaints report - ‘Complaints about aged care home services – Insights for pe
20 November 2023
In the first report of its type, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission explores information collected from thousands of complaints to give aged care providers key insights into complaints about their services.
11 October 2023
Statement from Janet Anderson PSM, Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner
24 July 2023
Statement from Ms Janet Anderson PSM, Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner
16 March 2023
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has published a report featuring case study insights from Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) ‘unreasonable use of force’ incident notifications.
13 January 2023
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner Janet Anderson is encouraging people receiving aged care via a home care package to work closely with their provider to sort out their care arrangements.
27 October 2022
Yesterday, Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner Janet Anderson met with members of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission’s Consumers and Families Panel. Established in August 2022 and now with over 280 members, the Consumers and Families Panel is helping the Commission to improve the way it regulates aged care services and resolves complaints about services.
20 October 2022
Coinciding with National Carers Week, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission has launched new interactive online learning modules to support families and friends of aged care residents to continue to provide care and companionship as a ‘partner in care’. Updated resources are also available to encourage and help aged care providers to establish ‘Partnerships in care’ programs at their services.
14 October 2022
In July 2022, the Minister for Aged Care, the Hon Anika Wells MP, announced that the Government would expedite a capability review of the Commission, as recommended by the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. On 14 October 2022, Minister Wells released the Terms of Reference for this independent capability review.
20 July 2022
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner, Janet Anderson, has written to all aged care providers to highlight steps they must take to continue to protect people in their care during a COVID-19 outbreak.
5 July 2022
To better understand what’s important to people who use aged care services, the Commission has established a Consumers and Families Panel made up of people receiving Australian Government funded aged care services, their family members and representatives.
15 June 2022
All of us are shocked and concerned when a person experiences abuse or neglect, and World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is a timely reminder that this can happen to older Australians too.
22 December 2021
Aged care providers have no excuse if they are unprepared for a COVID-19 outbreak. They are inviting the regulator to take action.
This is the clear message from Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner, Janet Anderson as 2021 draws to a close with rising rates of COVID-19 community transmission being seen in many parts of the country.
7 November 2021
I write regarding articles on the aged care Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS) syndicated across a number of News Corporation publications on 7 November 2021.
Serious incidents affecting aged care residents have been reportable under legislated requirements introduced from April this year.
It is disappointing that misleading information on the SIRS has been included in articles appearing today in your publications. Such reports undermine the community’s trust and confidence in the major reforms being implemented to drive improved safety and quality in aged care.
