UnitingCare West has appointed Amanda Hunt as chief executive.
April 7, 2017
The Royal Flying Doctor Service has appointed a new marketing and communications team to be headed by Kerry Milne.
April 7, 2017
Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency has a new project chancellor-in-chief. Ex-banker Gavin Slater will succeed interim CEO Nerida O’Loughlin as of May 1.
April 7, 2017
The troubled Department of Human Services peace seems further away as public servants there prepare for another round of damaging strikes.
April 7, 2017
An anaesthetist who abandoned his patient mid-operation and then passed out from intoxication has found new employment at Shellharbour Private Hospital. Michal Petr, who had a history of drinking on the job, has not returned to work at Wollongong Hospital since the incident on its premises in May last year. But the NSW Medical Board allowed him to continue practising under certain conditions, including that he worked under supervision, did not participate in any on-call roster and other measures not disclosed “due to privacy considerations”. Shellharbour Hospital does not employ staff doctors, but has given Dr Petr visiting rights as an anaesthetist in the pre-admissions clinic.
April 7, 2017
A Gippsland farmer and former Labor candidate has been forced to resign from a local hospital board after being exposed sending “offensive” screeds on Twitter. The state government confirmed on Wednesday night that John Anderson, a director of Latrobe Regional Hospital in Traralgon had resigned after Health Minister Jill Hennessy intervened.
April 7, 2017
Canberra Hospital has cancelled all outpatient services and elective surgeries after a switchboard fine cut power to parts of the campus.
April 7, 2017
An urgent investigation has been launched into a northern suburbs aged care facility amid claims of neglect after an elderly resident contracted the contagious skin disease scabies. A member of the woman’s family says he’s unaware whether action has been taken to protect dozens of other residents currently living in the Aboriginal Elders Village at Davoren Park in Adelaide.
