A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Royal Flying Doctor Service (Western Operations) t/A RFDSWA for its Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (Western Operations), Medical Practitioners Industrial Agreement 2016 has been approved by Commissioner Johns in Melbourne on 27 March 2017.
March 28, 2017
Mindaribba Local Aboriginal Land Council is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) instigated by an employer (Heard).
March 28, 2017
An application for approval of the St Joseph’s House Nursing Employees (Aged Care) & ANMF Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Commissioner Johns in his Melbourne chambers at 2.30pm today.
March 28, 2017
A Tweed man has been charged after allegedly making sexual remarks and indecently assaulting paramedics last week. He is due to appear before Tweed Heads Local Court on Monday 3 April 2017.
March 28, 2017
HBF Health Limited is to defend a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Deputy President Binet in Conference Room 12.34 in Perth at 3pm.
March 27, 2017
A controversial South Australian Government-run nursing home for elderly people with dementia has been sanctioned by the Commonwealth following allegations of mistreatment of residents. The Federal Government has acted on concerns about medication management at the Older Persons Mental Health Service in Adelaide’s north-east. A nursing adviser must be appointed to help bring the facility at Oakden up to standard. Former independent advisers Carla and Neil Baron have blown the whistle on “shocking” failings at the facility, after being brought in as advisers when the facility was last sanctioned in 2008. Mrs Baron said she was haunted by a memory from her time at the facility.
March 27, 2017
An aged care home was not warned that a new resident had stabbed his de facto wife to death just over two years earlier. Dennis Wakefield killed partner Beth Staveley and tried to take his own life at the couple’s Southport home in June 2014. He was charged with murder but was found in the Mental Health Court to be of unsound mind. The 75-year-old was confined to The Park Centre for Mental Health, a state-run psychiatric hospital in Brisbane’s west. But in August he was accepted into the Riverview Gardens Aged Care Plus Centre in Ipswich, with the help of Queensland Health. The Salvation Army facility only discovered Wakefield’s history just over a week ago and immediately relocated him. The case has raised questions about the adequacy of Queensland Health disclosures about the history of mental health patients. Salvation Army Aged Care Plus chief executive Sharon Callister said the centre was “made aware of information concerning a resident … which was not disclosed upon their admission” last Thursday.
March 27, 2017
A hospital is being investigated for breaching the privacy of dozens of patients after medical records revealing a “swollen penis” and mental illnesses among other things, were found in a Coburg street. The Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim is investigating how the records of 31 patients were removed from the John Fawkner Private Hospital in Melbourne’s north last month.
