Coronavirus Victoria: Review into COVID-19 outbreak at St Basil's and Epping Gardens aged care centres 'not independent' say experts, families
His co-author, Professor Gilbert, said: "An independent review, to be credible, has to have some sort of official standing. It has to be commissioned by someone â who else would commission it other than the department that is responsible for aged care?" It made sense not to include the regulator in the terms of reference because that would have been too big an undertaking, Professor Gilbert said. A spokesman for federal Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck said the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission had been excluded from the review because its purpose was to determine what caused the...
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