An application for approval of the Victorian Stand Alone Community Health General Dentists Multi-Employer Enterprise Agreement 2015-2017 (s.185 – application for approval of a multi-enterprise agreement) is being reviewed by Commissioner Cribb.
August 18, 2016
A nurse accessed patient records including those of her friends, family and colleagues, despite none being under her care, a tribunal has heard. The woman, who has permanent name suppression, was a nurse in a North Island health service centre between November 2011 to May 2014 where she inappropriately accessed and viewed 64 patients on 114 occasions. She appeared at the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal in Wellington yesterday. When the nurse worked at the health service centre, she had access to patient information through a computer system. Every time an employee logged into the system, a warning about patient confidentiality would appear. However the nurse continued to peek into patient records of people she knew or recognised – including friends, family, colleagues and colleagues’ family members, the tribunal heard. She looked at one patient’s information 17 times.
August 18, 2016
An application by Blackall Range Care Group Inc (s.222 – application for approval of a termination of an enterprise agreement) will be decided by Commissioner Booth in his Brisbane chambers.
August 18, 2016
A coronial inquest into the death of a 33-year-old after he was given painkillers in a Brisbane hospital has heard there were inconsistencies in nurses’ records about how much pain he was in. Michael Calder died at the Holy Spirit Northside Private Hospital at Chermside on Brisbane’s northside on July 11, 2014. The father of three had been admitted with a severe headache and was given a mixture of morphine and oxycontin. Sarah Atkinson, from Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, who is representing Mr Calder’s family at this week’s inquest, said he was found collapsed three days after being admitted and could not be revived. She said an autopsy later found he had lethal levels of morphine in his blood.
August 18, 2016
The Department of Health and Human Services has a s.372 (application to deal with other contravention disputes) with which it must deal (Corral).
August 18, 2016
Staff at Albany’s public hospital have avoided serious consequences after confidential patient information was found by a member of the public in the building’s courtyard. A double-sided paper document listing the personal details of 11 mental health patients, their reason for admission and their risk factors was found in the courtyard of the Albany Health Campus in June. The woman who found the document took it to local Albany MLA Peter Watson’s office who in turn released it to the media. The WA Country Heath Service (WACHS) has now completed an internal review into the incident and said it was very concerned the breach had occurred.
August 18, 2016
The Health Services Union and Goulburn Valley Health are embroiled in a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb.
August 18, 2016
Mercy Public Hospital Inc is facing a s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) instigated by an ex-staff member (Born).
