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It took four days for the federal government agency meant to keep aged care residents safe to take any action, after it was told by St Basil’s nursing home that a staff member had tested positive for coronavirus last July.
Decision to stand down staff at St Basil's amid the outbreak was made without consideration of the context, doctor tells the court
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...