A coronial inquest in Darwin is examining the circumstances of the death of veteran Kerry Murphy, who died after falling in the emergency ward of Royal Darwin Hospital in July 2014. Counsel assisting the coroner, Kevin Currie, said the family were concerned that “Mr Murphy went into hospital with injuries that were not life threatening but died due to a lack of care”.
July 26, 2016
Regis Aged Care Pty Ltd has three applications on foot (s.318 – Application for an order relating to instruments covering new employer and transferring employees) before Fair Work Commissioner Booth in Brisbane.
July 26, 2016
An overseas-trained psychiatrist has been sacked by the Waikato District Health Board for failing to immediately tell it of a patient’s complaint against him in the United States. Dr Robert Ivan Fink’s dismissal last week is the latest in a string of controversies to afflict the DHB’s mental health services.
July 26, 2016
An Adelaide residential care worker was caught on hidden camera apparently trying to suffocate an 89-year-old resident in a shocking case of elder abuse. Noleen Hausler set up a secret camera in her father’s room to gather evidence after becoming suspicious he was being abused.
July 26, 2016
The case against a man accused of murdering Outback nurse Gayle Woodford has been delayed as authorities continue to build their case, a court has heard. Dudley David Davey, 35, appeared in Port Augusta Magistrates Court on Monday for the third time since being charged with the murder of Mrs Woodford, 56, near Fregon in the APY Lands in March.
July 25, 2016
An application by Queensland Nurses’ Union of Employees (s.238 – Application for a scope order) is awaiting Commissioner Booth’s contemplation.
July 25, 2016
The Fair Work Commission has given its assent to the proposed Ardrossan Community Hospital Inc & ANMF (Private Sector) Nursing Employees Enterprise Agreement 2016.
July 25, 2016
The head of Tasmania’s new streamlined health service has offered to retrain senior managers at the Royal Hobart Hospital. The email asks clinical staff to speed up the discharge process at Tasmania’s biggest public hospital to free up beds, as the Emergency Department is at capacity and the situation is “getting worse”. It tells staff to “where possible” review what it terms “probable” and “potential” discharges. Tasmanian Health Service chief executive Dr David Alcorn, a psychiatrist, said that was not the way the hospital did business, but he was not going on a “witch hunt” to find the person responsible for the memo.
