Bill
Aged Care Amendment (Ratio of Skilled Staff to Care Recipients) Bill 2017
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01.
- Sponsor
- HINCH, Sen Derryn
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-09-06
- second reading — 2017-09-06
- second reading — 2017-09-07
- other — 2019-07-01
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-09-06.
The bill would require aged care homes to meet a minimum staffing level set by law.
It would change the Aged Care Act 1997 to make the Quality of Care Principles specify a safe and adequate ratio of skilled staff to care recipients.
The Department of Health would calculate the ratio, considering shift types, resident care needs, and location, after consulting the aged care sector.
- The bill introduces a legally required ratio of skilled staff to care recipients in government-funded aged care facilities.
- It replaces the existing paragraph 54-1(1)(b) of the Aged Care Act 1997.
- It adds a requirement to the end of section 54-1 of that Act.
Australian Government funded aged care residential facilities and their care recipients.
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