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Brien Cree, Managing Director/Executive Chairman of Radius Care, shares his opinion about why the sector needs an Aged Care Commissioner, and what he expects from this position. This March, we finally welcome New Zealand’s first Aged Care Commissioner, Carolyn Cooper. That’s good news – for the first time, we’ll have …

New Zealand’s aged care sector is experiencing a chronic nursing shortage and we now have a crisis situation on our hands. Immigration laws and procedures have made recruiting nurses from overseas tougher while our local nurses are leaving residential aged care in droves to take up higher paying positions in …