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”
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.
