PHOTO: Keeping helpers on hand is getting harder for regional aged care services.
A July 1 deadline requiring all aged care homes to have a Registered Nurse on-site 24 hours a day seven days a week has Nursing Homes across Central Western and Far West NSW under immense pressure.
With an already-critical shortage of available nurses, beds are closed in some of our region’s facilities and local elderly residents are being forced to moved away from their family to seek accommodation, causing distress to both patients and families.
Despite actual beds being available in the centres, the crippling lack of nursing staff means they will remain empty until a solution can be found…