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‘Catastrophic’ fears: health staff made lists of concerning cases days after Australia’s aged care funding tool launch
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PUBLISHEDSep 8, 2026, 3:00 PM
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Exclusive : Documents reveal assessors’ grave fears if client needs are underestimated by tool that can’t be overridden Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates 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 to one senior state health official writing to the federal…
Main source: The Guardian Health
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