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Retirement village fraud prevention strategies - pilot program launched

The Queensland Police Service has announced that its Fraud and Corporate Crime Group (FCCG) on 31 August 2011, launched a dedicated program to reduce incidences of fraud perpetrated by criminals upon residents of retirement communities. To read this announcement, please click here. The FCCG is a specialist investigative unit attached to...

The fine line between professional practice and personal interests

Nurses work closely with their patients. Those in residential and community-aged care may know their patients for months or years. Regardless, particularly when caring for the vulnerable, professional boundaries must remain firm. Health professionals need to know where the boundaries lie and recognise potential or actual violations. In...

Sanctions - prevention is better than the cure

On 20 July 2010, after a long and no doubt arduous battle, BlueCare, were finally successful in overturing sanctions imposed on one of its north Queensland facilities when the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (Tribunal) delivered its decision in The Uniting Church in Australia Property Trust (Q.) and Secretary, Department of Health and Ageing...

Heath care reform - the aged care chapter

A summary of the progress of the review of the Aged Care Act 1997 (Cth) Aged Care Association Australia (ACAA), with the help of Julie McStay, partner and head of the aged care and retirement living team at Hynes Lawyers, are well under way with their joint review of the Aged Care Act 1997 (Cth) (Act). Hynes Lawyers, on behalf of...

The Aged Care Complaints Investigation Scheme, natural justice and rights of review

A determination made by the Aged Care Complaints Investigation Scheme (CIS) that an approved provider has breached their responsibilities under the Aged Care Act 1997 (Cth) or the Aged Care Principles should be made in accordance with the principles of natural justice. If a decision is not made on that basis then this may provide a basis...

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