Shadow Financial Services Minister Matt Thistlethwaite is calling on the Commonwealth and aged care regulators to facilitate greater communication between facilities and families of residents as COVID-19 tears through Victoria's aged care system. Mr Thistlethwaite said the move by the Fair Work Commission to provide aged care workers with paid pandemic leave was necessary and urged the Commonwealth to better regulate PPE supplies in facilities.
He told Sky News however that the government needed to improve "consultation with relatives”. He said images in the media were showing high levels of anxiety among family members of residents in aged care homes as many were unable to obtain information about their relatives either online or by ringing the facility.
MThistlethwaite How about you change your soft headline to “LNP Needs to Clean Up our Aged Care system’. Your DanielAndrewsMP headlines always go for the jugular so why change now?!
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