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NATIONAL HEALTH2AGEDUCATE
AGED CARE & NDISLINK
CONFERENCE 2024
Thur 10th & Fri 11th October 2024
Novotel Melbourne 270 Collins Street Melbourne

Past Speakers since 2017... 

Jason Burton : Head of Dementia practice and Innovation WA 

Professor Ralph Martin : Chair in Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease : Edith Cowan University WA 

Dr Harriet Whiley : Lecturer in Environmental Health : Flinders University

Kirsty A Bennet : Manager Environmental Design Education Services : Dementia Australia 

Dr Richard Bentham : Hindmarsh Plumbing 

Irene Wilkinson : Director Infection Control Services South Australia Health 

Dr David Tuffley : Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics and Sociotechnical Studies at Griffith University's School of CT 

Andrew Vickers : Environmental Health Officer Public Health and Clinical Systems SA Health 

Dr Krispin Hajkowicz : Senior Staff Specialist in Infectious Diseases Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital 

Professor Chris Del Mar: Professor of Public Health, Bond University

Tracy Bladen: Public Health Nurse : Gold Coast Public Health Unit - Communicable Disease Control 

Lyntara Quirke: Advisory Board member : Dementia Training Australia

Megan Brine : Microbiology Phycology Team Leader : ALS Global

Glen Pinna : General Manager Biotech Laboratories

Professor Stephen Lord: Senior Principal Research Fellow - Neuroscience Research Australia 

Dr Alicia Arnott: PHD in Virology from Monash University : Westmead Hospital

Kim Langfeldt : Public Health Nurse - Queensland Health 

Satyan Chari: Clinician Queensland Health 

Chris Wold: Principal Public Health Officer - Queensland Health 

Bhakti Vasant: Public Health Physician: Queensland Health 

Steven Coghlan: Governance Institute of Australia 

Samantha Jenkinson: NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission 

Amber Crosthwaite : Lavan 

Erica Thuijs : Jackson McDonald Multi-Sector Law 

Bennett Green: Jackson McDonald 

Prue Campbell : Panetta McGrath

David McMullen: Panetta McGrath

Kate Swetenham : Clinical Director : Southern Adelaide Palliative Services

Louise Durham : Nurse Practitioner for SA Metro South Palliative Care Service

Anne-Rita Vleugel : Pall Medical

Ryan Milne : Ecosafe International

Glenys Harrington : Infection Control Consultant

John Cole : Environmental Directorate : Dept of Health WA 

Ben Witham : WA Communicable Disease Control Directorate : Dept of Health WA

Professor Anne-Marie Hill: School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science

Professor Matt Rawlins : Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist : Fiona Stanley Hospital WA 

Ed Gaudoin : Clinical Nurse Manager - Metropolitan Palliative Care Consultancy Service WA â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹

Some of these Speakers may no longer be with the organization or in their roles 

Managing Food Safety in Aged Care 

5th July 2019  Perth & Adelaide 

THINKST SOLUTIONS

Recognizing and responding to clinical deterioration of older people  

5th July 2019

Ed Gaudoin - Bethesda

2019 Aged Care Quality Standards includes National Aged Care Quality Indicator Program and Charter of Aged Care Rights 

5th July 2019

Susan Brownlowe - Leading Aged Care Services Australia 

Food Outbreak investigations in Residential Aged Care 

5th July 2019

Department of Health WA

John Coles and Ben Witham

Falls in hospitals and Aged Care 

5th July 2019

Prof Anne-Marie Hill

Ed Gaudoin - Bethesda

Aged Care Quality Indicator Program 

14th Mov 2019

Leading Aged Care Services Australia 

Prof Jon Iredell Sydney

Improving the lived experience of dementia - medication management, hospital care and future practice 

5th July 2019

Jason Burton : Alzeimers WA 

Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospitals and Residential Aged Care 

5th July 2019

Matt Rawlins 

Perth Seminar & Livestream
Crown Perth WA 
7th July 2022
Proposed Second State of legislative Reforms for aged Care in Response to the Royal Commission

Serious Incident Response Scheme in Community Care 

Presented by Erica Thuijs of Jackson McDonald Multi-Sector Law Firm, Erica will explain ; 

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Why do we need a Serious Incident Response Scheme?

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What is the Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS)?  

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What has occurred since the SIRS was introduced?

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What you must report

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What is currently required under the SIRS

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What is currently required under the SIRS

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Governance Update

Presented by Steven Coghlan of Governance Institute of Australia, participants will understand governance with; 

 

Director ID
Virtual and Hybrid Meetings

Cyber security 

Climate change 

Codes of Conduct effective 1st July 2022

Presented by Erica Thuijs of Jackson MacDonald Multi-Sector Law Firm, participants will understand; 

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Mandatory minimum qualifications

Minimum levels of English proficiency

Criminal history screening

Powers for ACQSC to investigate code breaches

 

Legislative Reform

Final Report of Royal Commission into Aged Care released on 26 February 2021 

Royal Commission Response No 1 Act passed 24 June 2021

 

What Might a Code of Conduct Look Like?

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Voluntary Code of Conduct for employees

Preparation for the Scheme 

 

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Worker screening obligations of Residential Aged Care Providers who are NDIS Providers 

Presented by Samantha Jenkson of NDIS Quality and Safety Commission, participants will understand : 

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Overview of NDIS Worker Screening

Role of NDIS Worker screening in Quality and Safeguarding

How NDIS Worker Screening operates 

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21st October 2021  Perth 

Dealing with difficult residents and families

  • Identifying the difficult party

  • Strategies for managing residents and family members

  • Balancing obligations to residents and families with obligations to your staff

  • Receiving, investigating and managing complaints

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Capacity and substitute-decision making

  • Ascertaining individual decision-making capacity

  • The differing roles and responsibilities of substitute decision-makers, including powers of attorney, enduring guardians, appointed guardian and administrators and NDIS nominees

  • Circumstances in which an application may need to be made to the State Administrative Tribunal

 

Mental Health, Psychological Safety and Duty of Care 

  • Developing your safety system to support the recognition of psychosocial hazards, psychological risk, mental health warning signs, domestic violence risk and other workplace risks  

  • Working with medical experts who are treating the employee - what can you request, and dealing with non-responsive employees and doctors  

  • Accommodating workers compensation claims, and dealing with issues around causation  

  • Dealing with absent employees, and avoiding discrimination claims when dealing with medical incapacity due to mental health issues  

  • Addressing duty of care obligations and mental health risks for a remote and flexible workforce 

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