The New South Wales Health Minister plans to seize the Sydney home of a man who is accused of defrauding four of the state’s hospitals over 11 years by posing as a doctor. Shyam Acharya allegedly masqueraded as UK doctor Sarang Chitale in four New South Wales public hospitals over a decade. He has left the country and is believed to have left his wife and a small child in Australia. NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has confirmed he plans to seize a home owned by Mr Acharya in North Ryde worth a reported $1.5 million
March 14, 2017
An application by Mr Pritchard and District Community Club Limited (s.319 – Application for an order relating to instruments covering new employer and non-transferring employee) will be determined by Senior Deputy President Hamberger in his Sydney chambers.
March 14, 2017
Care workers have been filming themselves perform sex shows whilst working for an international brand care organisation. Staff also removed their clothes at their head office and one of the care co-ordinators was paid for a private show on a webcam. The carers use the site adultwork.com to advertise services to online punters. Health chiefs who were shown the footage have ordered an investigation.
March 10, 2017
Mediq Wallan Medical clinic is facing a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) before Deputy President Dean in his Sydney chambers at 1pm (Momin).
March 10, 2017
An experienced nurse who caused injury to a ‘vulnerable’ man at a care home after a dispute over his tobacco allowance has been slapped with a suspension order by a health watchdog.
March 10, 2017
An application for approval of the Burnside War Memorial Hospital Inc Nursing and Midwifery Employees ANMF Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is the preserve of Commissioner Roe in his Melbourne chambers at 3pm.
March 10, 2017
A Wodonga woman who ripped off Centrelink for nearly five years has been ordered to repay the cash she wrongly claimed. Leanne Russell, 46, took $34,730 she wasn’t entitled to from taxpayers between November 2010 and August 2015. She failed to correctly declare her income 125 times. Russell was working part time with a church-based aged care provider and earned close to $170,000 during that period.
March 10, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by St John of God Health Care Inc for its St John of God Health Care – ANMF – Registered Nurses’ and Midwives’ Agreement 2016 has been approved.
