NEWS-HR

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.

Two staff involved in the under-dosing of a chemotherapy drug at the Royal Adelaide Hospital have been stood down, South Australia’s Health Minister Jack Snelling has confirmed.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Prestige Recruitment & Labour Hire Pty Ltd for its Prestige Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Commissioner Gregory in Melbourne on 9 May 2017.

One of the Northern Territory’s most important alcohol treatment programs has been placed under special administration by the Indigenous corporations watchdog, ORIC. ORIC said the directors of the community-run Barkly Region Alcohol and Drug Abuse Advisory Group (BRADAAG) asked for the organisation to be placed under the control of an administrator to make sure its Tennant Creek sobering-up shelter, counselling, outreach and education services remained open.