Community Living Options is facing a (s.394 – Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Senior Deputy President O’Callaghan in the Fair Work Commission Level 6 Riverside Centre North Terrace Adelaide (Spalding).
February 2, 2017
The rural doctor who treated a West Australian nurse for neck pain before she was discharged from hospital cannot be blamed for her death, a coroner has found. Tamika Patricia Carol Ullrich died suddenly from a rare condition of chronic hydrocephalus, which made her susceptible to instability of her cardio- respiratory system, following a brief admission to the emergency department at Northam Hospital in December 2012. Coroner Barry King found Ms Ullrich died from natural causes.
February 2, 2017
Waikato Hospital patient Robert Williams was woken at 4am when one of his doctors arrived drunk and rambling in his hospital room. Waikato health bosses are refusing to comment on the outcome of an investigation into a doctor who drunkenly abused a patient. Robert Pere Williams made a video and audio recordings of an intoxicated junior doctor who barged into his hospital room about 4am on December 17. The doctor told Williams, 22, he was upset because Waikato Hospital was so understaffed and repeatedly called the 22-year-old “a faggot”. He also threatened to kill himself. Waikato DHB staff declined to be interviewed on the matter but in a statement Greg Peploe, director of people and performance, said the board had concluded its investigation into the incident. Peploe said Williams and the doctor had been interviewed but, due to privacy rights, the board would not comment on the specific outcomes of its investigation. Williams, who has cystic fibrosis, alleged the doctor was drunk and he no longer felt safe in the hospital. He also complained about the behaviour of other hospital staff toward him. Peploe said no other employees had been investigated.
February 1, 2017
A man accused of brutally murdering an aged-care worker and dumping her body in a Windale park has raised a defence of substantial impairment, claiming he couldn’t control himself at the time of the woman’s death. There is no dispute that Graham Anthony George Sloane, now 68, was the man who took Renee Mitchell, 38, from her kitchen while she was cooking dinner for her family on November 11, 2014, Newcastle Supreme Court has heard. There is also no question that Mr Sloane took Ms Mitchell to nearby Bangalay Reserve and stabbed her four times in the chest and once in the neck. And it’s not disputed that those injuries caused her death and that Mr Sloane intended to kill Ms Mitchell. But what a jury will be asked to decide is whether Mr Sloane was suffering from an “abnormality of the mind” at the time of the killing, meaning his capacity to understand events, judge right from wrong or control himself was substantially impaired by mental illness.
February 1, 2017
A man and woman who went missing from a Blue Mountains nursing home over the weekend have both been found safe and well. Juliette Broome, 70, left the Leura home on Saturday, believed to be heading to Sydney’s inner city suburbs. A day later 55-year-old Michael Owen attended a church service on Sunday morning in Leura before he too went missing. Mr Owen returned to the nursing home at some point before 11pm on Monday. But Ms Broome was only found by a community member near a caravan park in Blackheath about 10.30am on Tuesday. They took her back to Leura, with police meeting her at the train station and then escorting her to the aged care home.
February 1, 2017
An application by Health Services Union (s.240 – Application to deal with a bargaining dispute) will be heard by Commissioner Cribb in the Fair Work Commission 11 Exhibition Street Melbourne at 4.30pm today.
February 1, 2017
Eldercare Inc is to face a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) instigated by an ex-staffer (Quiah).
February 1, 2017
The Salvation Army is alleged via a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) to have illegally sidelined a staff member (Nakasone).
