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Automation in aged care sector should have been done 'differently and better', Commonwealth Ombudsman says

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Show Notes

The Commonwealth Ombudsman has found the automated assessment program that 85% of older Australians have undertaken to access aged care services has led to unfair - and in some cases clinically inappropriate - outcomes.

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