Aged care staffing to ‘get worse’ – Newcastle Herald article – 13 January 2022
Two aged care CEO’s Frank Price and Viv Allanson speak out about the challenges of workforce shortages during the pandemic due to staff having to be furloughed.
Two memorable quotes
‘Airline cancel flights if they haven’t got enough staff for their flight crews; cafes might close for the day if they can’t find a waiter or a barista, ” Frank Price, of the Royal Freemasons’ Benevolent Institution which runs several aged care facilities across the Hunter, said. ‘We can’t do any of that…’
And from Viv Allanson, CEO Maroba
‘The promised ‘workforce surge’ touted by the federal government never eventuated. Whoever came up with this ‘surge workforce’ was having a wet dream – nothing materialised from it’…This idea that we have a cupboard full of workers that we can call on as back up..They don’t exist….’
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