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Clear guidance, quick diagnostics, and hands-on support for providers preparing for the new Aged Care Act, strengthened Quality Standards, care minutes and 24/7 RN.

From 1 November 2025, Australia’s rights-based Aged Care Act 2024 begins, alongside a strengthened set of Quality Standards and a refreshed regulatory model. The reforms put older people’s rights and outcomes at the centre of care while introducing new expectations for providers. Are you ready?

Understanding what’s changing and what it means for your workforce, governance and day-to-day operations is essential to staying compliant and delivering consistently high-quality care. This hub distils the key shifts and points you to practical tools, so you can translate requirements like care minutes and 24/7 RN coverage into safe, sustainable practice.

 

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Workforce & Rostering under the 2025 Reforms

Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Playbook

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A practical guide to translating care-minute targets and 24/7 RN coverage into safe, sustainable rosters without burning out your teams.

You’ll learn:

  • How to convert care minutes into shift patterns and skill-mix
  • Building fairness and fatigue rules into rosters
  • Forecasting demand and reducing agency reliance
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A concise overview of the strengthened Quality Standards with practical steps to uplift governance, risk, policy and incident management.

You’ll learn:

  • What the strengthened Standards mean in practice

  • A board-ready readiness checklist

  • How to build a learning culture that sticks

Where are you now?

  • Need help planning rosters for care minutes / 24/7 RN

  • Need help lifting governance / Standards readiness

  • Want a quick diagnostic first

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Care minutes target calculator

Residential aged care providers must calculate and deliver care minutes targets for their services. This tool can help providers perform this calculation.


Other helpful resources

Uniting NSW.ACT Case Study

Want to see how one of Australia’s largest aged care providers tackled workforce challenges head-on?

This is more than a success story. It’s a clear blueprint for aged care organisations navigating workforce pressures in 2025 and beyond.

 

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Uniting NSW.ACT Podcast

You would not want to miss this.

Watch the full 10-min podcast episode with Brad Kearns and Talking HealthTech to hear the complete journey, including practical tips, implementation lessons, and outcomes Uniting achieved with RLDatix.

 

SwanCare Case Study

Improved workforce efficiency and swift development.

SwanCare have managed to make better use of existing staff, keeping agency costs down to 0.26% of overall wages. Click below to download the full case study document.

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How RLDatix helps

We support providers with workforce, governance, risk and policy solutions designed for health and care, helping you turn regulatory change into safer, more sustainable operations. If you’d like to see how organisations are planning rosters for care minutes, preparing for the strengthened Standards, or simplifying incident and policy workflows, we’re here to help.

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