The executive director of the Royal Melbourne Hospital has been appointed the chief executive officer of the Tasmanian Health Service. Psychiatrist David Alcorn will replace interim CEO Dr Anne Brand from February 1.
December 16, 2015
Staff at a Hobart nursing home where an 85-year-old woman died were so busy on the night that they could only glance at residents to check them, a coronial inquest has heard. Barbara Westcott, 85, died on March 31, 2012 at the Vaucluse Gardens Aged Care facility. She was found lying face down with her head and neck stuck between her mattress and bed pole, with her knees on the floor.
December 16, 2015
The Department of Health and Human Services has tossed a staffer on the scrapheap (Haddon) and now faces a Fair Work Commission inquisition.
December 16, 2015
Former federal MP Craig Thomson has been ordered to pay more than $458,000 for misusing funds during his time as head of the scandal-plagued Health Services Union. The Federal Court ordered Thomson pay $80,050 to the Fair Work Commission over the spending of union funds for personal use between 2003 and 2007, including on several visits to brothels. Justice Christopher Jessup also ordered he pay the HSU $231,243 in compensation and $146,937 in interest. Judge Jessup said Thomson, who did not appear at the hearing, had at no stage shown any contrition or appreciation of the seriousness of the matters against him.
December 16, 2015
The Health Services Union is having an industrial rumble with the Latrobe Regional Hospital
December 16, 2015
Douttagalla has given an employee (Araya) the bullet only to cop s.394 (application for unfair dismissal remedy) crossfire.
December 16, 2015
The Health Services Union is also harrumping with North East North East Health Wangaratta. Is there any organisation in Vicoria with which it is not in dispute?
December 16, 2015
St Vincents Hospital (Melbourne) Limited has fired a staff member (Parsons) who now wants salvation via a s.739 (application to deal with a dispute) hearing before Commissioner Cribb in Fair Work in Victoria.
