The Queensland government will set minimum staffing standards at state-owned nursing homes but admit it can’t force private facilities to do the same.
New laws will force Queensland’s 16 state-owned facilities to provide a minimum of 3.65 nursing hours per patient, per day and to publicly report staff ratios.
Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk says if private aged care facilities choose not to share their staffing levels, the government will reveal their identity of facilities unwilling to do the right thing by elderly Queenslanders