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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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

The State Coroner has slammed SA Health’s controversial new electronic patient records system for “effectively preventing the court from establishing the truth” in the death of a former Socceroo. Coroner Mark Johns is investigating the death of Stephen Herczeg, 72, at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on September 19 last year. SA Health E Health Systems chief director William LeBlanc fronted the inquest on Wednesday and was unable to explain one of the documents assessing Mr Herczeg’s condition that had been generated by EPAS. That prompted Mr Johns to question how SA Health had submitted “considerably worse than satisfactory” evidence. “How on earth is it that printing a hard copy is not included as a basic function of EPAS?” he said. “Was the system trying to avoid the scrutiny by courts?” Mr Johns said he had raised the issue of the functionality of EPAS with Health Minister Jack Snelling for more than a year.

A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by National Mental Health Commission for its National Mental Health Commission Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 has been approved by Deputy President Kovacic in Canberra.

A political analyst believes Tasmania’s embattled Human Services Minister will remain in the role despite ongoing controversies within protection issues.