Editorial
Welcome to the March edition of i2P – Information to Pharmacists.
You may have noiticed if you receive i2P by email, that we have simplified our mail out presentation.
This was because the code in our earlier version appeared to be too unstable to maintain, hence the simpler presentation.
Columns
Rollo Manning: Pharma-Goss
John Dunlop: Inside NZ
Loretta Marron BSc: Health Watch
Barry Urquhart: Marketing Focus
Harvey Mackay: Strategic Thinking
Mark Neuenschwander: I`ve been thinking about...Recent Comments
Past Editions
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Volume 1 Number 4
Volume 1 Number 5
Volume 1 Number 6
Volume 1 Number 7
Volume 2 Number 1
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Health Politics
Pat Gallagher: Health Informatics - The State of the Nation
Peter Sayers: The Three-Ring Circus
Dr David More: e-Health IdentifiersEPublications
AIHW Aged Care Report
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A new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows that the Commonwealth Government's 2011 target of 88 operational residential aged care places for every 1,000 people aged 70 years and older is already close to being met.(Source: Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association (AHHA)
'The actual provision ratio as at 30 June 2008 has been calculated at 87.7,' said Ann Peut, Head of the Institute's Ageing and Aged Care Unit.
The Residential Aged Care in Australia 2007-08 report also shows that the trend towards fewer but larger facilities is continuing, and that length of stay for permanent residents is continuing to rise.
At the end of June 2008 there were around 175,500 beds in operation in Australia, almost 5,500 more than the previous year.
During 2007-08 there were over 105,000 admissions to residential aged care compared with almost 103,200 the previous year.
Almost half the admissions were for respite care, which had an average length of stay of just over 3 weeks. The average length of stay for permanent residents who left residential aged care during 2007-08 (most commonly because they died) was 148 weeks. It was about 146 weeks in 2006-07, and 131 weeks in 1998-99.
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