Doctors are at breaking point over failed negotiations with the State Government for higher wages and better working conditions, says the head of the Australian Medication Association Tasmania. Doctors at the Royal Hobart and Launceston General hospitals met last night to discuss what the AMA said was a “total lack of progress” in enterprise bargaining negotiations.
March 24, 2017
A Parramatta Park man accused of seriously assaulting a nurse has been remanded in custody. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Legal Service solicitor Alan Watkins said no bail application would be made for Joshua Colin Yeila. The 34-year-old was arrested and charged on Wednesday night after he allegedly threatened a nurse at Cairns hospital.
March 24, 2017
A coroner has found Ambulance Victoria paramedics acted according to standards when attending to a woman who later died at home after hours of vomiting. The family of Stacey Yean believed if their daughter had been taken to hospital on January 5, 2016, she “would still be alive”.
March 24, 2017
NSW Health has admitted a bogus doctor worked at an additional two hospitals during the decade he spent posing as Indian practitioner Dr Sarang Chitale.
March 24, 2017
There is no evidence a disability support agency abused a severely disabled man in Tasmania’s north-west, Premier Will Hodgman has said. But a disability advocate says the Government’s response to the case is not good enough. Details of abuse allegations relating to the care of Devonport man Theo Langmaid were aired on Wednesday night. Mr Langmaid has a brain injury after contracting meningitis as a four-month-old, and he requires around-the-clock care. His mother, Joyce Langmaid, claims her 26-year-old son was locked in a courtyard, thrown into a swimming pool, and restrained by having a couch placed on top of him while in the care of North-West Residential Services.
March 24, 2017
A seriously disabled man in Tasmania had a lounge put on top of him by support workers who were trying to restrain him. He was also regularly locked outside in a courtyard and was once pushed into a pool in an effort to calm him down. Theo Langmaid, 26, acquired a brain injury after contracting meningitis as a four-month-old and requires around-the-clock care. While in the care of North West Residential Support Services his parents became concerned about how he was being treated.
March 24, 2017
An application for approval of the HammondCare Residential Care (Victoria) Enterprise Agreement 2017 will be reviewed by Commissioner Roe in his Melbourne chambers at 3pm.
March 24, 2017
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and Eastern Health will duke out a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne.
