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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& #39;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">https://www.smh.com.au/politics/...
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">https://www.smh.com.au/politics/...
In case anyone needs a reminder, Colbeck:
- Put no national plan in place for COVID in aged care
- Couldn& #39;t even say whether he& #39;d briefed Cabinet about the Royal Commission& #39;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& #39;t even say whether he& #39;d briefed Cabinet about the Royal Commission& #39;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& #39;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
