A “substantial overdose” of medication by staff contributed to the death of an 88-year-old patient at North Shore Private Hospital in Sydney, an inquest has found. “Quite simply, the nurses gave the wrong dose,” the Deputy State Coroner Magistrate Harriet Grahame concluded. Audrey MacGregor was being treated for pneumonia in October 2013 when she was mistakenly given ten times the prescribed dose of the opioid painkiller hydromorphone.
October 28, 2016
The ACT Government as represented by the Health Directorate is arguing a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) initiated by staffer Scanlan.
October 27, 2016
An application by CPSU (Community Public Sector Union) (s.229 – Application for a bargaining order) will be heard by Deputy President Kovacic in Canberra.
October 27, 2016
An application for approval of the Joondalup Health Campus Ramsay Health Care WA Hospital Engineering Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) is before Commissioner Roe in his Melbourne Chambers.
October 27, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has ratified the Health Care (Victorian Hospitals) Nurses Enterprise Agreement 2016.
October 27, 2016
An application for approval of the Serco – United Voice Fiona Stanley Hospital Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be adjudicated by Commissioner Roe in his Chambers in Melbourne.
October 27, 2016
Homelessness NSW is fighting a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Commissioner McKenna in Hearing Room 12-2 – Level 12 in Sydney (Burrows).
October 27, 2016
Charges will not be laid against a community mental health service after one of its patients slipped and fell to his death. Daryl Kitto, the last surviving member of his family, was with his carers when he fell 40 metres to his death while having his photo taken in April. The 47-year-old Christchurch man was under the care of community mental health service Emerge Aotearoa when he died at Rakaia Gorge, in Mid Canterbury.
