It took about 26 firefighters about 30 minutes to contain a blaze at Menora Gardens residential aged care facility this morning. RSL Care WA chief executive Kevin Davidson said the fire started in an ensuite bathroom of a room in the one-storey Eweing Wing. “A fire occurred in the exhaust extraction fan and that tripped the RCD switch to isolate the power,” he said. Staff heard the fire alarm, turned off the electricity and evacuated at least six residents from their rooms just after 4am. One woman, 90, was treated for smoke inhalation.
May 9, 2016
Gavin Robins is the new chief executive officer of Coolibah Total Caring. Current chief executive Don Pember retires this year after 25 years.
May 9, 2016
Ambulance Tasmania employees will begin low-level industrial action on Tuesday if the State Government hasn’t put forward a new workplace agreement for consideration by Monday afternoon. At meetings over the past 10 days, Health and Community Services Union members voted to embark on industrial action that includes bans on working overtime, entering information into the electronic database, non-essential paperwork, moving vehicles, and distributing campaign materials.
May 9, 2016
Hundreds of hospital jobs will be spared the axe under revised plans to rein in the Barnett Government’s health spending. The Department of Health said 717 full time equivalent positions would be slashed from three hospitals in the South Metropolitan Health Service. These cuts are down from the original plan to reduce 1163 FTEs. A Department spokesman said additional efficiency savings would need to be found in other areas to make-up for the revised staff cuts.
May 9, 2016
A nurse who made a false insurance claim and stole drugs has avoided being struck off the profession’s register. American-born Christopher Joseph Foley was, however, suspended for 18 months. His misconduct included looking at nude women and sexual images on his employer’s computer system.
May 9, 2016
The Royal District Nursing Service Limited is defending a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) launched by a staff member (Hutchinson).
May 9, 2016
Health Services Union and Mercy Health have their s.379 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb.
May 9, 2016
Hundreds of construction union workers who went on strike at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital site have been ordered back on the job and banned from taking industrial action for three months. About 600 tradies downed tools on Thursday, but only 160 had approval to take the strike as part of a dispute between subcontractor Nilsen and the Electrical Trades Union. Lendlease, the contractor in charge of the hospital project, yesterday took the CFMEU to the Fair Work Commission, successfully securing an order demanding workers not involved in the dispute get back to work.
