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Invited Comment Sue Macri* Challenges facing health care professionals in Australian Nursing Homes In line with the Federal Labor Party's Aged Care future is both exciting and challenging is an understate­ Policy announcement in March 1983, major changes ment. Where else have we seen a total health care system have been taking place within the provision of aged care dismantled in every true sense of the word and a brave, services throughout Australia. bold new Scheme introduced? The reality for the Department of Community Ser­ With the new Scheme has come the need for health vices and Health and for the Government itself was that care providers to review current practices to ensure that something radical needed to be done in relation to aged they are in line with recent changes. Nursing homes have care services, not the least of which was the need for had to come to terms with the fact that they are no longer Federal Budgetary considerations to be brought to bear a cottage industry and that nurses and allied health care on what had become a financial nightmare, one destined professionals employed in nursing homes are not second to grow in proportion as the demographic pressures http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Medical Record Journal SAGE

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 1989 Health Information Management Association of Australia Limited
ISSN
0817-3907
eISSN
1833-3575
DOI
10.1177/183335838901900204
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Abstract

Sue Macri* Challenges facing health care professionals in Australian Nursing Homes In line with the Federal Labor Party's Aged Care future is both exciting and challenging is an understate­ Policy announcement in March 1983, major changes ment. Where else have we seen a total health care system have been taking place within the provision of aged care dismantled in every true sense of the word and a brave, services throughout Australia. bold new Scheme introduced? The reality for the Department of Community Ser­ With the new Scheme has come the need for health vices and Health and for the Government itself was that care providers to review current practices to ensure that something radical needed to be done in relation to aged they are in line with recent changes. Nursing homes have care services, not the least of which was the need for had to come to terms with the fact that they are no longer Federal Budgetary considerations to be brought to bear a cottage industry and that nurses and allied health care on what had become a financial nightmare, one destined professionals employed in nursing homes are not second to grow in proportion as the demographic pressures

Journal

Australian Medical Record JournalSAGE

Published: Jun 1, 1989

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