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About UsMedia Release ANMF condemns aged care providers for reclassifying lifestyle and allied health staff to meet mandated care minutes
The ANMF says the tactic being used by some aged care providers to reclassify lifestyle staff as Personal Care Assistants (PCAs) in a bid to meet their mandated care minutes responsibilities is undermining the Albanese Government’s ongoing reforms to fix the sector. Despite being funded to deliver landmark aged care reforms, reports have emerged of some aged care providers reclassifying lifestyle staff to PCAs, or cutting them altogether, to meet the current requirement of 200 minutes of care per resident per day.
Read MoreThe ANMF says the tactic being used by some aged care providers to reclassify lifestyle staff as Personal Care Assistants (PCAs) in a bid to meet their mandated care minutes responsibilities is undermining the Albanese Government’s ongoing reforms to fix the sector. Despite being funded to deliver landmark aged care reforms, reports have emerged of some aged care providers reclassifying lifestyle staff to PCAs, or cutting them altogether, to meet the current requirement of 200 minutes of care per resident per day.
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