Royal Prince Alfred Hospital doctors and nurses are threatening to resign over a lack of parking following the expiry of the staff car park lease and its takeover by a private operator.
April 15, 2016
The new boss of the Transforming Health project is a Canadian nurse with 35 years experience in administration. Vickie Kaminski, 63, is being paid a base salary of $540,000 a year on a three-year contract to implement the overhaul of the state’s health system the SA Government hopes will cut costs and improve quality.
April 15, 2016
Sean Rooney will be the inaugural chief executive officer of the unified LASA body. Mr Rooney will replace outgoing CEO of the LASA national office, Mr Patrick Reid.
April 15, 2016
Unions have vowed to make weekend penalty rates a key federal election issue as pressure mounts for the payments to be cut. Aged care nurse Margy Scott said she and her colleagues aren’t well paid as it is. “It (cutting penalty rates) brings our wages down dramatically,” she said.
April 15, 2016
More than 650 patients of a Melbourne metropolitan health facility have been advised to undergo blood tests for hepatitis B after being treated by an infected worker. The Department of Health and Human Services confirmed it sent letters this week to patients who came into direct contact with the unnamed worker in the past three years.
April 15, 2016
Lendlease has appointed Matthew Mears chief operating officer for property and Matt Wallace managing director for communities.
April 14, 2016
Access Industries for the Disabled is fighting a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an ex-staff member (Phillips).
April 14, 2016
The Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union-New South Wales and ACT (Services) Branch & House With No Steps are negotiating a s.576(2)(aa) (Promoting cooperative and productive workplace relations and preventing disputes) agreement.
