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Stop blaming aged care workers for government failures on vaccines – Providers & unions unite
Aged care providers and the union movement have united to reject the current blame shifting on vaccination, saying it is government failures that have caused low vaccination rates, not workers.
Providers and unions have been calling for fast action on vaccinating workers within the high-risk sector for at least six months, however the government’s aged care vaccine program has too often led to disappointment, frustration, confusion and anger.
The Australian Aged Care Collaboration – a coalition of peak organisations for aged care employer groups – has joined with the ANMF, AWU, UWU, HSU, ASU and the ACTU to demand that the Morrison Government implement the five following principles into a rollout strategy that will support aged care workers to be vaccinated quickly and safely using the Pfizer vaccine only:
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Peaks, unions unite against government’s aged care vaccine ‘blame-shifting’
Australia’s aged care peak bodies and unions have rallied together to demand the government take responsibility over the failed vaccine rollout.
In a joint statement, the Australian Aged Care Collaboration (AACC) along with the ANMF, AWU, UWU, HSU, ASU and the ACTU, have called for the workforce to be urgently vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine only .
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt announced that aged care staff would be prioritised in the planned vaccine rollout. However, only two-thirds of workers in the sector have received the jab so far, according to recent health department figures.
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âIs someone breaking fingers in here?â: The food problem in aged care
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When Nicholas Hall started as a chef at The Bays aged care home in Hastings in 2018, he recalls noticing something strange: almost all the elderly residents there seemed to be on a diet where their food was cut up.
âI had a lot of residents coming to me and saying that they did not want their food cut up,â Hall told the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. âThey were perfectly able to cut up their own food.â