But Aged Care Services Minister Richard Colbeck says the tender process does not necessarily mean state health system involvement will end. | rachelclun
Australia’s peak medical body has warned a plan to put assessments of elderly Australians’ care needs out to tender risks dumbing down the expert teams involved and putting profits ahead of patient wellbeing.
Aged care assessment teams work out whether elderly Australians could stay in their own home with more support or require residential care. They operate out of public hospitals and include state-employed nurses, geriatricians and social workers. Sydney Local Health District aged health community services manager Helen Hislop said having ACAT members embedded in the hospital system meant they had access to specialists for further help and could easily view a patient’s public health history. Combined with conversations with their GP, that helped create a richer picture of their health issues.
Dr Khorshid said the AMA agreed the system should be streamlined so there were no longer two assessment processes. But he said the commission’s report was not necessarily recommending getting rid of the state-run ACAT.
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