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So the minister who had NO PLAN to prevent outbreaks in aged care, made PPE training voluntary, put no policy in place regarding hospital transfers, and didn't even know the numbers of deaths, is now pointing fingers.
THE TEMERITY. #auspol #agedcarerc https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/preventing-victoria-s-second-wave-would-have-saved-lives-in-aged-care-colbeck-20201027-p5692m.html
THE TEMERITY. #auspol #agedcarerc https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/preventing-victoria-s-second-wave-would-have-saved-lives-in-aged-care-colbeck-20201027-p5692m.html
In case anyone needs a reminder, Colbeck:
- Put no national plan in place for COVID in aged care
- Couldn't even say whether he'd briefed Cabinet about the Royal Commission's interim report
- Did not know the number of aged care deaths in Senate hearings - not once, but TWICE
- Put no national plan in place for COVID in aged care
- Couldn't even say whether he'd briefed Cabinet about the Royal Commission's interim report
- Did not know the number of aged care deaths in Senate hearings - not once, but TWICE
- Implemented no meaningful changes after the fatal outbreaks at Newmarch House and Dorothy Henderson Lodge
- Failed to consider how the existing failures in aged care would exacerbate the threat posed by COVID outbreaks
- Failed to provide expert infection control to facilities
- Failed to consider how the existing failures in aged care would exacerbate the threat posed by COVID outbreaks
- Failed to provide expert infection control to facilities
- Provided incomplete and inaccurate information to providers, telling them as late as August that they only needed to prepare for a 20-30% loss of workforce, when there was clear international evidence outbreaks could decimate the workforce #auspol #agedcarerc
- Failed to make face marks compulsory in aged care until 13 July - after residents had started to die in Victorian aged care
- Spent $92 million on a failed "one worker, one workplace" scheme that the government had no way of monitoring #auspol #agedcarerc
- Spent $92 million on a failed "one worker, one workplace" scheme that the government had no way of monitoring #auspol #agedcarerc
- Refused to release heat maps of facilities with outbreaks — even confidentially to providers — until September, making it infinitely harder to providers to know whether staff working across multiple sites were putting residents at risk #auspol #agedcarerc
- Utterly failed to make any progress whatsoever on areas of urgent action identified in the Royal Commission's Interim Report, including the 100,00+ home care waitlist, widespread chemical and physical restraint, and young people with disabilities in aged care. #agedcarerc
If ANYONE needs to step up the plate and take responsibility for the overwhelming and tragic failures in aged care, IT IS HIM.
#colbeck #auspol #agedcarerc
#colbeck #auspol #agedcarerc
