Bill
Aged Care Amendment (Resident Welfare and Provider Disclosure) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01.
- Sponsor
- GRIFF, Sen Stirling
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-04-02
- second reading — 2019-04-02
- 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 2019-04-02.
The bill would require residential aged care providers to report how many residents fall and how many medication errors occur.
Providers would also have to display any sanctions against them on their own website.
Reporting of falls and medication errors would happen every three months and would add to three existing clinical indicators that providers already report to the Department of Health.
- Creates a new duty for approved providers to report numbers of falls and medication errors quarterly.
- Amends the Aged Care Act to require providers to publish sanctions on their website.
- Adds falls and medication errors to the existing National Aged Care Quality Indicator Program.
Commonwealth-subsidised residential aged care providers, aged care residents and their families.
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