A nursing director has denied she was attempting to cover up the death of a dementia patient when she told her staff not to immediately call the police. Charles McCulloch, 94, was admitted to the secure dementia ward of Narrabundah’s Jindalee Aged Care Residence on 20 January, 2012, after being transferred between various NSW facilities. One day later, he was dead, bashed by another resident and discovered in his bed by staff early in the morning. Jindalee’s response to the death has raised a number of concerns, which are currently being explored in an inquest before the ACT Coroner’s Court.
April 22, 2016
An application for approval of the Southern Cross Care (Broken Hill), NSWNMA and The Broken Hill Town Employees’ Union Enterprise Agreement 2015-2017 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be heard by Commissioner Cribb in his Melbourne chambers.
April 21, 2016
A nursing director has denied she was attempting to cover up the death of a dementia patient when she told her staff not to immediately call the police. Charles McCulloch, 94, was admitted to the secure dementia ward of Narrabundah’s Jindalee Aged Care Residence on 20 January, 2012, after being transferred between various NSW facilities. One day later, he was dead, bashed by another resident and discovered in his bed by staff early in the morning. Jindalee’s response to the death has raised a number of concerns, which are currently being explored in an inquest before the ACT Coroner’s Court.
April 21, 2016
The Health Services Union and Eastern Health are contesting a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne.
April 21, 2016
Yarra Ranges Council has gagged its nurses, threatening with disciplinary action for speaking to the media amid striking and other industrial action over their enterprise agreement.
April 21, 2016
The Ngnampa Health Council is facing a s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) lodged by an ex-staffer (Hooder).
April 21, 2016
Health Minister Cameron Dick has called on Mudgeeraba MP Ros Bates to stop launching attacks on Gold Coast Health management and staff before agreeing to withdraw the claims in State Parliament. A political war has been waged between the pair for months about health issues on the Coast, with the Minister last year forced to apologise after Ms Bates threatened to refer him to the Ethics Committee for misleading Parliament. During a heated exchange in Parliament during Question Time yesterday, Mr Dick took aim at Ms Bates after she asked him about the review into mental health services at Robina Hospital.
April 20, 2016
Interaction Disability Services Ltd has failed in its manoeuvring to have a s.394 unfair dismissal application from Arturo Zuniga thrown out.
