Residential Aged Care Coronial Communiqué
The Residential Aged CareCoronial Communiqué highlights selected cases that have been reported to the State Coroner's Office and are of interest to the aged care community.
The aims of the Communiqué are:
• To improve the awareness of clinicians, health workers, carers and those in positions of governance about adverse events resulting from systems failures. Lessons from past cases can then be applied to their own institutions.
• To improve residential aged care workers' understanding of the coronial system and the work performed by the Clinical Liaison Service.
The latest edition of the Residential Aged Care Coronial Communiqué (February 2008) which explores the challenges of the interfaces between aged care facilities and families, hospitals, general practitioners and emergency departments, is now available.
