{"id":34881,"date":"2025-09-13T03:40:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=34881"},"modified":"2025-09-13T03:40:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:40:31","slug":"greens-urge-end-to-aged-care-shortages-as-figures-reveal-2500-people-unnecessarily-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/09\/13\/greens-urge-end-to-aged-care-shortages-as-figures-reveal-2500-people-unnecessarily-in-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens urge end to aged care shortages as figures reveal 2,500 people unnecessarily in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

State governments have told Labor today that nearly 2,500 people are unnecessarily in hospital<\/u><\/a> waiting for residential aged care or home care packages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Greens are calling on Labor to use today\u2019s meeting of Health Ministers to help end the \u2018rationing\u2019 of aged care. Rationing of aged care means the release of a limited number of care spaces each year, meaning people who need care miss out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Greens spokesperson for Older People, Senator Penny Allman-Payne, previously wrote to the Minister for Health and Ageing<\/u><\/a>, Mark Butler, warning of the impacts of Labor\u2019s shortage of aged care on the hospital system and urging him to take responsibility and act to end the aged care shortage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week\u2019s Aged Care Inspector-General report<\/u><\/a> confirmed the government\u2019s aged care reforms due in November will not deliver the change envisaged by the Aged Care Royal Commission four years ago, and would \u201cboth prejudice equity of access to care and create inadvertent cost blow in other areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senator Penny Allman-Payne, Greens spokesperson for Older People:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe heard at the Greens-led Senate inquiry into Aged Care that older Australians were being forced into hospital because of Labor\u2019s aged care shortages, and now today\u2019s figures confirm it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c2,500 older people have been left virtually homeless because Labor are rationing care out to those who can most afford it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the for-profit aged care system, the worse your health is, the less likely you are to be cared for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLabor and the Liberals aged care system restricts the supply of care, and providers then choose from their most profitable customers. The Royal Commission said we should end this rationing of care, but Labor have ignored them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen 1 in 3 big corporations pay no tax, but an older person with dementia can\u2019t get care, something is seriously wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLabor had to be dragged kicking and screaming by the Greens and others in the Senate just to release 20,000 home care packages. This time, they should take heed of this warning from the states and use today’s meeting to help end the rationing of care so that everyone can access the care that they need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State governments have told Labor today that nearly 2,500 people are unnecessarily in hospital waiting for residential aged care or home care packages.  The Greens are calling on Labor to use today\u2019s meeting of Health Ministers to help end the \u2018rationing\u2019 of aged care. Rationing of aged care means the release of a limited number of care … Continue reading “Greens urge end to aged care shortages as figures reveal 2,500 people unnecessarily in hospital”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34882,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34881\/revisions\/34882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}