Albanese’s pledge to mandate 24/7 nurses in aged care comes with a disclaimer | Dana_Adele
Anthony Albanese said last week a Labor government would bring forward to July 2023 laws requiring aged care homes to roster a nurse in each home around the clock.
The Opposition clarified the policy after shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus told the ABC on Monday evening the 24/7 nursing requirement could be “paused” if a Labor government failed to grow the workforce in time to impose the rule on providers, risking closures.“If it is, in fact, true that there are not enough nurses in Australia to provide that level of care, we should train more,” Mr Dreyfus told the ABC. “It might be that it turns out we’ve got to pause it.
“If you’ve set the standard and there’s just not staff there then that’s something that’s going to have to be looked at,” Mr Dreyfus said. “But let’s accept the royal commission’s recommendation, let’s say we need to have 24-hour nursing care in nursing homes, let’s put the nursing back into nursing homes as my leader has said.”
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