{"id":8709,"date":"2020-10-13T06:27:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T06:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8709"},"modified":"2020-10-13T06:27:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T06:27:03","slug":"government-must-meet-the-deadline-for-implementation-of-aged-care-royal-commission-special-report-recommendations-and-fund-them-in-the-budget-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/13\/government-must-meet-the-deadline-for-implementation-of-aged-care-royal-commission-special-report-recommendations-and-fund-them-in-the-budget-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Government must meet the deadline for implementation of Aged Care Royal Commission special report recommendations and fund them in the budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens say that the Government has no excuse not to urgently act on the recommendations of the\u00a0<em>Aged care and COVID-19: a special report.\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nLet\u2019s face it, these recommendations are really the bare minimum of what the Government should have already done when this pandemic started, extra support for the workforce, infection prevention and control training, mental health support for residents and of course a national coordinating body.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s shambolic that we have no national coordinating body to address the COVID crisis in aged care, Greens spokesperson on Ageing Senator Rachel Siewert said.<br \/>\nThe buck stops with the Commonwealth on Aged Care and so far they have failed dismally.<br \/>\nWe knew about the need for infectious control prevention and accreditation after Newmarch.<br \/>\nGiven that the Royal Commissioners have made the unusual step of releasing a special report so close to when the final report is due indicates how serious the failures of the system to deal with COVID are.<br \/>\nA commitment to fund these recommendations adequately must be included in next week&#8217;s budget.<br \/>\nThe funding that the\u00a0Government has announced today is not enough and there needs to be more\u00a0in the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens say that the Government has no excuse not to urgently act on the recommendations of the\u00a0Aged care and COVID-19: a special report.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it, these recommendations are really the bare minimum of what the Government should have already done when this pandemic started, extra support for the workforce, infection prevention and control &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/13\/government-must-meet-the-deadline-for-implementation-of-aged-care-royal-commission-special-report-recommendations-and-fund-them-in-the-budget-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Government must meet the deadline for implementation of Aged Care Royal Commission special report recommendations and fund them in the budget&#8221;<\/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-8709","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\/8709","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=8709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}