Aged care operators are warning Victoria's deadly COVID-19 outbreak could be repeated in other states if national cabinet does not bring forward the establishment of new response centres | Dana_Adele
In a pre-budget submission sent to the federal government, LASA outlines the $2 billion of annual funding it argues is needed to keep aged care recipients safe in the pandemic, pushing to double the daily amount provided from $7 to $15 per resident, and increase funding for home care recipients from the current maximum $1.68 per day in COVID funding to $5.
Funding would be used for additional infection control training, cleaning, personal protective equipment, building a surge workforce large enough to fill rosters in an outbreak, random testing of aged care workers whenever there is community transmission and ensuring all workers have access to paid pandemic leave.
Ms McMillan said federal health authorities were working to "bolster preventative approaches in residential aged care and take some of those lessons we have learned both"We are seeing those responses already up and active, but not necessarily established through a physical centre at this point in time," she said, noting a federal health liaison officer was working with the Queensland government on its aged care response after COVID-19 was detected in the sector.
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