Underfunding and staff shortages are driving aged care sector to ‘untenable standstill’, major provider warns
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BaptistCare says pressures are hitting vulnerable residents as well as employees and pleads for action from whoever wins government
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The head of a major Australian aged care provider has warned workforce shortages and underfunding are exhausting staff and driving the sector into an untenable standstill".
The BaptistCare NSW and ACT chief executive, Charles Moore, has issued a plea to whichever party forms government to act immediately to improve aged care funding, warning the current pressures are unsustainable and are hitting vulnerable residents as well as staff.
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