Drayton Villas Retirement Village has a new village manager (Scott Burton).
April 5, 2017
An application for approval of the Hill View Aged Care Operational Staff Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be adjudicated by Commissioner Gregory in his Melbourne Chambers at noon.
April 5, 2017
A Singaporean man who worked as a nurse in Melbourne has admitted waking up a patient and sexually assaulting her by applying cream to her genitals. Jefferson Augustine, 34, appeared before the Victorian County Court on Monday after earlier pleading guilty to sexually assaulting three women between 2015 and 2016, including a patient at the hospital where he worked.
April 5, 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 granted by Commissioner Gregory in Melbourne on 3 April 2017.
April 5, 2017
Dozens of staff will be shifted from Flinders Medical Centre and the Repatriation General Hospital to new offices in Tonsley as Transforming Health changes put a squeeze on space. Staff have been told 120 non-clinical staff will be shifted to the new offices off-site starting from April 10 as Repat services are moved to FMC and the site is prepared for sale.
April 5, 2017
The Health Services Union-New South Wales Branch and The Trustee For Lifehouse Australia Trust are duelling over a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute).
April 5, 2017
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”
