The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) says the tactic being used by some aged care providers to reclassify lifestyle staff as Personal Care Assistants (PCAs) in a bid to meet their mandated care minutes responsibilities is undermining the Albanese Government’s ongoing reforms to fix the sector. Despite being funded to deliver landmark aged care […]
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) welcomes the certainty of a final wage outcome for aged care workers, but has expressed its concern that the pay increase for nurses working in aged care is still on hold, leaving them waiting and uncertain. Last week, the Fair Work Commission (FWC) ruled that direct care workers […]
Around 60 aged care nurses and carers from across the country have travelled to Canberra to address the ongoing failures by providers to comply with the federal government’s key aged care reforms. The group is standing together to call out providers, many of whom are proving they can’t be trusted to lift the standard of […]
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has welcomed the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) further recognition that the work of aged care workers has been historically undervalued in its Stage 3 decision for the aged care industry work value case announced today. The FWC has concluded that, for ‘work value reasons’, award rates for direct […]
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) is disappointed by the recommendations made in the Aged Care Taskforce’s final report and is urging the federal government to rethink its approach to the aged care system. The 23 recommendations fail to adequately address quality of care and workforce issues within the system which are the fundamental […]
As thousands of aged care nurses prepare for their shifts across NSW, a widespread sense of triumph and relief will envelop them this weekend when a significant milestone is reached. The legal requirement for residential aged care facilities to have at least one registered nurse on duty, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, […]
The lack of sustainable funding and real reform for health and aged care shows that Prime Minister Scott Morrison has failed to ‘do his job’ to restore and rebuild Australia’s public health system and the private aged care sector, according to the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF). While the COVID-19 pandemic has been a […]
To mark the one-year anniversary of the Royal Commission’s final report into the troubled aged care system, members of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) are speaking out – expressing their heartbreak and disgust that Prime Minister Scott Morrison ‘hasn’t done his job’ to stop the suffering of elderly Australians living in aged care. […]
Burnt out and dejected, a group of registered nurses, enrolled nurses and assistants in nursing from residential aged care sites across NSW are travelling to Canberra, desperate to have their voices heard when federal parliament resumes tomorrow. Armed with first-hand accounts of chronic workforce shortages, poor access to booster vaccines, and ongoing battles over supplies […]
Frustrated members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) will take to the streets in Gloucester tomorrow to highlight local aged care staffing cuts. It’s been revealed up to five full-time equivalent nursing positions will be lost, when aged care bed licences transfer from Gloucester Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital over to Anglican Care later this […]
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