Timaru Hospital is in lockdown after concerns about patient safety. A South Canterbury District Health Board (SCDHB) spokeswoman said advice from police regarding patient safety was behind the decision to place the hospital into lockdown. It is unclear exactly what sparked the lockdown. The spokeswoman said lockdown meant all external doors to the hospital were locked.
July 3, 2017
Almost three-quarters of South Australians have rejected the State Government’s wall of secrecy on the Oakden aged-care home and want the anti-corruption watchdog to hold an open inquiry into the abuse of its elderly residents. As MPs prepare to return to Parliament and another vote on the issue looms, a poll of 885 voters has found 73 per cent are in favour of public hearings into the case.
July 3, 2017
Shocked doctors raised the alarm about a Canberra nursing home after an elderly resident battling dementia arrived for emergency treatment with maggot-infested wounds. When the man’s distressed family confronted the nursing home, the then-manager reasoned that maggots “were good for wounds” because they “cleaned them out”. Peter Tunnecliffe, 77, was a resident at the Southern Cross Care facility in Garran when he was sent to Canberra Hospital last December for the treatment of cancer lesions on his face and scalp. Senior hospital staff were so disturbed by the discovery of maggots in the lesions, they took it upon themselves to lay a complaint with the federal government’s aged care watchdog.
July 3, 2017
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and Healthscope Pty Ltd have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Lee in hearing room 8, first floor in Hobart at 2pm.
July 3, 2017
MSS Strategic Medical & Rescue Pty Ltd has a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) with which it must contend (Hall).
July 3, 2017
Bathurst’s Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) crews were called out to businesses as the freezing temperatures caused pipes to burst. FRNSW Station Officer Sandy Collins said the first call came at 10.27am on Saturday to burst pipes at St Catherine’s Aged Care Facility.
July 3, 2017
BK Chemists has dished out a (s.394 – application for unfair dismissal remedy) bitter pill to an ex-employee (Trevisan).
July 3, 2017
SA Health has uncovered at least two more deaths it failed to tell coroner Mark Johns about, admitting there is “more work needed” to ensure doctors meet a legal requirement to report cases. It follows revelations in February that the deaths of eight infants at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital were also not reported to the coroner’s office. Mr Johns had already blasted SA Health for withholding information on two stroke deaths at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
