{
  "id": 6288131,
  "title": "‘Catastrophic’ fears: health staff made lists of concerning cases days after Australia’s aged care funding tool launch",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/catastrophic-fears-health-staff-made-lists-of-concerning-cases-days",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-08T15:00:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Health",
    "slug": "guardian-health",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/09/catastrophic-fears-health-staff-made-lists-of-concerning-cases-days-after-australias-aged-care-funding-tool-launch"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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…",
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      {
        "outlet": "The Guardian Australia",
        "title": "‘Catastrophic’ fears: health staff made lists of concerning cases days after Australia’s aged care funding tool launch",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/catastrophic-fears-health-staff-made-lists-of-concerning-cases-days-6290743",
        "published": "2026-09-08T15:00:42.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}