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This is the interim report of the Family and Carer Mental Health Program (FCMHP) evaluation prepared by the Centre for Health Service Development at the Australian Health Services Research Institute (University of Wollongong). The Centre for Health Service Development has been commissioned to undertake this evaluation by the NSW Ministry of Health (the Ministry) between June 2020 and September 2021.
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Unions and aged care experts are outraged that the royal commission into the sector has not recommended a clear path away from the “overcasualisation” of the system’s workforce, warning the extra time residents are set to receive with carers will ultimately feel “transactional” and detrimental to dementia sufferers if providers can still rely on labour hire agencies.
The Australian Council of Trade Unions is mostly optimistic that key recommendations on training, skills and daily minutes of care per resident made on Monday would, if adopted by the Morrison government, boost the number of carers at residential facilities and lift wages across the traditionally underskilled, underpaid and exhausted workforce.