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Timetable and call for submissions announced for review of Conditional Adjustment

Nursing home and hostel operators, older Australians, unions and consumer representatives have been invited to lodge formal submissions to the Review of the Conditional Adjustment Payment (CAP) in residential aged care.

The Minister for Ageing, Mrs Justine Elliot,has released the formal timetable for the CAP review, which was announced in the May  Budget .

Advertisements would appear in national newspapers and submissions will be accepted up until Friday, 24 October 2008.

The CAP was introduced in 2004-05 by the previous Government, to provide additional medium term financial assistance to residential aged care providers, while encouraging them to become more efficient through improved management practices.

Over the last four years, the CAP has seen more than $838.7 million in additional subsidies go to the residential aged care sector.

The Australian Government will provide $2 billion over the next four years through the CAP, for providers to care for elderly Australians, above and beyond usual aged care subsidies.

 The Review of the CAP will examine:

  •  the extent to which the medium term financial assistance provided by the CAP has been effective in encouraging efficiency through improved management practices; and
  • the need for, and level of, any further medium term financial assistance to encourage providers to become more efficient through improved management practices.

“In addition, the Australian Government will be interested to hear ideas from the aged care sector and the community on what nursing home and hostel operators should be asked to do in order to receive CAP funding,” Mrs Elliot said.

The Government is now seeking comment from organisations and individuals with an interest in the provision of residential care for frail older people.

 Further information can be found at:

www.health.gov.au/cap.

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