Claire Moore (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Ellison, the Minister representing the Minister for Ageing. Is the minister aware that a report on the Belvedere Park Nursing Home in Melbourne in August this year found it failed 42 of 44 care standards, putting residents at serious risk? Didn’t that audit of the nursing home find that it failed to provide the residents with appropriate nursing and clinical care, medication management, nutrition, hydration and infection control? Didn’t the audit team observe that the foul stench permeating the facility impacted on the quality of life of residents and made visiting relatives vomit? Given this nursing home repeatedly and seriously failed care standards in 1998, 1999 and 2000, can the minister now advise whether there were any inspections between 2000 and 2007; and, if so, how many of them were unannounced?