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‘Catastrophic’ fears: health staff made lists of concerning cases days after Australia’s aged care funding tool launch

Exclusive : Documents reveal assessors’ grave fears if client needs are underestimated by tool that can’t be overridden Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast State health officials were so alarmed by a controversial federal government aged-care funding tool that they kept a log of hundreds of cases where vulnerable older Australians were severely under-assessed. It also led…

‘Catastrophic’ fears: health staff made lists of concerning cases days after Australia’s aged care funding tool launch

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