What we do
ATACA works with small and medium aged care providers across Australia — delivering consulting, training and strategic advice grounded in real clinical experience.
Independent resident reviews, funding potential mapping and submission support to help your facility claim the funding it's entitled to.
Learn more →Practical, plain-language training in AN-ACC, the new Aged Care Act and compliance — designed for nurses, care workers and coordinators.
Learn more →Hands-on operational support to improve workflows, strengthen quality systems and prepare your team for ACQSC audits and reviews.
Learn more →Leadership advisory, funding strategy and reform navigation for providers planning ahead in a rapidly changing sector.
Learn more →About ATACA
ATACA is led by Karina Peace — a clinical expert with more than two decades of experience in the aged care sector, including direct relationships with the Department of Health.
We work with the nurses, managers and operators doing the real work of aged care every day — not the executives at the big consulting firms. Our advice is practical, honest and grounded in genuine sector understanding.
Based in Australia and working with providers nationally, ATACA has been delivering consulting and training services for over four years.
About Karina →Book a free 30-minute call with Karina — no obligation, just a conversation about where your facility is at and how we might be able to help.
If your organisation is struggling to make the funding stretch far enough—while still meeting care minutes, workforce costs, registration requirements and the strengthened Quality Standards—this is the conversation we need to have in Adelaide. Because the uncomfortable truth is this: when funding falls short, quality is placed at
Recent examples of minor non conformance
Date: 7 October 2026 Venue: The Terrace Hotel Adelaide Time: 0900 - 1500 Speakers: Karina Peace - ATACA. Fleur Hannan - Critical Success Solutions. Steven Hughes Financial Shepherd. Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/funding-quality-and-re-registration-intensive-workshop Funding, workforce, quality and compliance can no longer be managed as separate priorities.
Too large to fail. How the new ANACC amount directly targets small providers.
Toolbox talks designed for RNs and Care Staff to help them understand the registration process and their role / responsibilities.
For Directors of Nursing, Care Managers, Clinical Managers, Clinical Governance leads and senior Registered Nurses, these announcements should influence audit programs, education plans, clinical documentation reviews and supervision over the coming months.
For Boards, CEOs and executives, the message is becoming increasingly clear: financial sustainability, workforce performance, consumer experience, quality outcomes and regulatory compliance can no longer be managed as separate streams of information.
Recent publications from the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, together with coronial findings and current issues across the sector, provide some very clear signals about where Facility Managers, Care Managers and Registered Nurses should be focusing their attention.
The organisation may have a gap between the systems it says it has and what is actually occurring in practice.
What happened? → What did the resident do or say? → Who or what was affected? → What did you do? → What happened afterwards? Below are examples written in language a personal care worker could realistically use. Wandering At approximately 2:15 pm, Mrs Jones entered three other residents' rooms without permission.
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Not all AN-ACC consultants offer the same kind of support. Some lead with software. Some lead with financial modelling. Others provide broad corporate advice across multiple areas of aged care. ATACA deliberately offers something different. We begin with the resident, the clinical evidence and the people responsible for delivering