Nurses from two Adelaide hospitals are “appalled” by a decision to cut beds at the facilities, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation says. The ANMF’s SA branch says nurses from the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital will meet this week to consider industrial action over the bed closures. It says nurses believe the decision “flies in the face of patient demand” as some patients at both sites had recently been given care in corridors and treatment rooms because of a bed shortage.
January 16, 2017
St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney Ltd has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) being reviewed by Commissioner Johns in the Fair Work Commission Terrace Tower 80 William Street East Sydney today at 4pm (Grygiel).
January 16, 2017
Two paramedics performed first aid on themselves after their ambulance rolled in the Northern Territory’s remote outback. The St John’s Ambulance personnel were injured when their troop-carrier crashed about 55km south of Tennant Creek.
January 16, 2017
A former union bookkeeper charged with defrauding the National Union of Workers of almost half a million dollars allegedly spent the cash on Botox treatments, buying and maintaining a luxury Audi, and paying more than $150,000 rent for her friends and family. Danielle O’Brien, the niece of former union boss Derrick Belan, was arrested in November along with her uncle and charged with 155 fraud offences totalling $430,000. Mr Belan was charged with 24 fraud offences totalling $440,000. Their charges ranged from dishonestly obtaining financial advantage or causing disadvantage by deception to stealing property from an employer and knowingly participating in a criminal group and deriving a $191,000 benefit from the group. According to documents tendered in Mount Druitt Local Court, Ms O’Brien splashed out on clothing, electronic goods, personal items, beauty treatments and luxury cars during a five-year spending spree.
January 16, 2017
Dhauward-Wurrung Portland & District Aboriginal Elderly Citizens Inc is involved with a s.365 (Application to deal with contraventions involving dismissal) before Commissioner Riordan in his Sydney chambers (Kelly).
January 16, 2017
A grief-riddled family member of a local legend fighting for life after a vicious nursing home bashing has shared his harrowing experience at length. Malcolm ‘Mac’ MacGregor OAM, 88, is battling bleeding on the brain after a fellow resident of The Haven aged care facility beat him within an inch of his life over a missing coffee mug. Now his great nephew, Matt Mortimer, has broken his silence about the aftermath of the shocking incident. Mr Mortimer described the mental trauma he suffered watching his mother Alison cry over Mr MacGregor’s ailing, wounded body. “I have never felt the pain of seeing her cry so many times at the helplessness at what we were dealing with,” he said. “With melancholic hindsight, we now think it was probably better that it was Mac that was attacked and not another resident. “His strong will simply refuses to bite the dust, a trait that another at the elderly home may not possess.” Mr Mortimer said ‘Mac’ is making a slow recovery since the brutal bashing on January 7. Reports suggest the altercation broke out after the alleged assailant accused Mr MacGregor of plotting to steal his favourite coffee mug. It is believed the accused, Malcolm Eric McDonald, 69, then punched the 88-year-old in the head multiple times.
January 13, 2017
Tracey Barnett (nee Close) has failed to overturn a decision by the NSW Workers Compensation Commission.
January 13, 2017
Dr Colin Scott is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by ex-staff member Brown.
