The Northern Territory Health Department is staying tight-lipped about what a scathing coronial report could mean for the future of health services in the Top End. Irene Magripilis was a healthy 75-year-old woman when she underwent a high risk operation to remove an intestinal growth at Darwin Private Hospital on May 27, 2015. She died of multi-organ failure due to a sepsis infection — caused when an internal stitch failed and bile leaked into her abdomen — after being transferred to Royal Darwin Hospital’s ICU. In his report into her death, Coroner Greg Cavanagh said the health department and Top End Health Service should consider his findings “in their dealings with and licensing of the Darwin Private Hospital”.
April 4, 2017
The decision issued by the Fair Work Commission on 30 March 2017 [2017] FWCA 1813 is corrected as follows: By deleting the Title of the Agreement wherever it appears including in paragrpah [1] and replacing it with the following: “Mater Health Services Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise Agreement 2015-2018”
April 4, 2017
A bogus doctor who worked in NSW for more than a decade using a stolen identity has been fined $30,000, the maximum penalty available.
April 4, 2017
The Institute for Urban Indigenous Health Ltd is to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner Riordan in his Sydney chambers (Bell).
April 4, 2017
The Auditor-General is considering a fresh investigation into ACT Health’s data problems, covering the “management and reporting of performance information”, just two years after the last audit of the directorate’s “data integrity”. Weeks after Health Minister Meegan Fitzharris ordered a system-wide, “root and branch” review of the data problems, the audit office has confirmed it is considering starting what would be the fourth audit in seven years to examine data-related problems inside ACT Health and Canberra Hospital.
April 4, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by South Eastern Nursing and Home Care Association Inc T/A South Eastern Community Care for its South Eastern Community Care Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been approved by Commissioner Gregory in Melbourne on 3 April 2017.
April 3, 2017
A pensioner who stabbed his defacto wife to death was found to be of unsound mind, despite apologising to her family afterwards. But in August he was accepted into the Riverview Gardens Aged Care Plus Centre in Ipswich, with the help of Queensland Health. Queensland Health failed to warn the facility of Wakefield’s history. He has since been moved to an undisclosed location.
April 3, 2017
Two paramedics have allegedly been assaulted by a 22-year-old man in the Hunter Valley suburb of Belmont.
