{"id":9263,"date":"2020-11-19T00:53:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T00:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2020-11-19T00:53:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T00:53:14","slug":"commonwealth-must-take-the-lead-in-south-australia-to-prevent-another-covid-outbreak-in-aged-care-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/11\/19\/commonwealth-must-take-the-lead-in-south-australia-to-prevent-another-covid-outbreak-in-aged-care-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth must take the lead in South Australia to prevent another COVID outbreak in aged care facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens say that it is imperative that the Commonwealth learn the hard lesson from the Victorian aged care COVID outbreak and take leadership before it is too late.<br \/>\n&#8220;All providers must be focused on preventing the entry and spread of Covid-19 in aged care facilities&#8221;, Greens spokesperson on Ageing Senator Rachel Siewert said.<br \/>\nWhat we learnt from the Victorian experience is that aged care providers cannot wait to act once an outbreak occurs.<br \/>\nPrevention is key to stopping older Australians from experiencing another disastrous outbreak of Covid-19.<br \/>\n<strong>The Commonwealth must support the South Australian agencies to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support all aged care workers to transition to working at a single site to reduce infections between facilities<\/li>\n<li>Ensure all aged care providers have at least one trained infection control officer working at each facility effective immediately<\/li>\n<li>Ensure infection prevention and control experts are deployed to aged care facilities to ensure staff training in infection prevention is up to date and best practice effective immediately<\/li>\n<li>Ensure all staff are wearing PPE<\/li>\n<li>Ensure adequate PPE is provided to facilities as soon as they need it<\/li>\n<li>Have a clear guide in place for visitors to residential aged care facilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission must start re-assessing South Australian aged care facilities for their readiness for Covid-19 outbreaks and continue with unannounced visits.<br \/>\nThe 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 \/>\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-19 are.<br \/>\nThese failures cannot be repeated in South Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens say that it is imperative that the Commonwealth learn the hard lesson from the Victorian aged care COVID outbreak and take leadership before it is too late. &#8220;All providers must be focused on preventing the entry and spread of Covid-19 in aged care facilities&#8221;, Greens spokesperson on Ageing Senator Rachel Siewert said. What &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/11\/19\/commonwealth-must-take-the-lead-in-south-australia-to-prevent-another-covid-outbreak-in-aged-care-facilities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Commonwealth must take the lead in South Australia to prevent another COVID outbreak in aged care facilities&#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-9263","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\/9263","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=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}