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A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation for its ANMF (Victorian Branch) (Staff and Council) Enterprise Agreement 2016-2020 has been ratified.

The Peninsula Village aged care facility at Umina Beach is in lockdown after a gastro outbreak.

The Community and Public Sector Union and the Department of Human Services are in a (s.739 – Application to deal with a dispute) armwrestle before Commissioner Johns in his Sydney chambers.

An application by Contract Pharmaceutical Services of Australia Pty Ltd (s.225 – Application for termination of an enterprise agreement after its nominal expiry date) will be reviewed by Commissioner McKenna in Hearing Room 12-2 – Level 12 in Sydney at 3pm.

Public administrator Kate Carnell and international healthcare quality expert Professor Ron Paterson will examine the national aged care quality regulatory processes. The snap review was announced last week following the failures at the Makk and McLeay aged care wards at the Oakden Older Persons Mental Health Service.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation for its ANMF (Victorian Branch) (Staff and Council) Enterprise Agreement 2016-2020 has been ratified by Commissioner Gregory in Melbourne on 11 May 2017.

A nurse’s “muddle-headed and illogical” decision to let a suicidal man leave Royal Adelaide Hospital without a guard allowed him to return home and take his own life, the State Coroner has found. Coroner Mark Johns found Daniel Peter Scoleri should never have been allowed to leave the RAH’s emergency ward after being detained under the Mental Health Act in July 2014.

The Health Services Union & Australian Education Union and Another have a s.576(2)(aa) (Promoting cooperative and productive workplace relations and preventing disputes) before Commissioner Roe in Conference Rooms E & H Level 6 in Melbourne at 2pm.