The Department of Health and Human Services is to answer a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Deputy President Hamilton at 11 Exhibition Street, Melbourne at 10.15am (Connolly).
November 22, 2016
Heavy “grocery items” have been flung at an ambulance in Melbourne’s CBD from a 25-storey tower while paramedics were helping a patient. The police ambulance triage team, with two police officers and a paramedic, heard three loud bangs on their vehicle in A’Beckett St at 12.25am on Sunday as they finished their work with the patient. They found a number of grocery items had been thrown to the ground, denting the ambulance and at least one other vehicle in the area, but no culprit has been identified.
November 22, 2016
Sunrise Health Service Aboriginal Corporation has become embroiled in a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) at the behest of Sherman.
November 22, 2016
More nurses die from deliberate drug overdose than any other health care professionals, according to a landmark new study. Researchers examined more than 400 drug-related deaths of healthcare workers between 2003 and 2013. It included medical practitioners, paramedics, nurses, dentists, psychologists, pharmacists and vets. The highest number of deaths was amongst nurses — 62 per cent of the deaths — followed by medical practitioners, at 18 per cent. Most of the nurses were women, and the doctors male.
November 21, 2016
Police have charged a disability carer with the indecent assault of a patient at a care facility in Sydney’s south. Earlier this month, police from St George Local Area Command were told a woman aged in her 30s, who is confined to a wheelchair, had been indecently assaulted by a staff member at the facility. The incident is alleged to have occurred in October this year, with the woman also threatened. The man was granted conditional bail to appear at Sutherland Local Court on Wednesday 14 December 2016.
November 21, 2016
A Midland aged care facility employee accused of assaulting a 93-year-old resident seven times will fight the allegations against her. Luz Ando Freeman, 61, pleaded not guilty in the Midland Magistrate’s Court to seven counts of aggravated common assault. The court was told Ms Freeman, of Swan View, allegedly assaulted Morrison Lodge resident Jean Robinson between September 30 and October 3. In a letter presented to the court, Ms Freeman’s lawyer advised his client had lodged an unfair dismissal claim with Fair Work Australia. Prosecutors said there was “quite a lot” of evidence to present at trial, and suggested further charges may be laid.
November 21, 2016
The Health Services Union and Latrobe Regional Hospital are engaged in a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) contretemps before Commissioner Cribb at 10am.
November 21, 2016
Bosses at the giant Department of Human Services have more faith in technology than in their 36,000 public servants in delivering welfare payment reform, a conference in Canberra has been told. Department deputy secretary John Murphy said technology, an area where his department has struggled, was likely to be “the easiest part of the journey” of spending $1.5 billion in taxpayers’ money replacing the Centrelink payment system. The former NAB banker has told a tech conference the biggest challenge of the change program would be engaging and winning over the department’s 35,000 employees. The department has been riven by industrial strife since 2014 with workers now having rejected three times a new workplace agreement they fear would strip them of conditions and entitlements.
