NSW Health says 10 people at a Western Sydney aged care home have tested positive to COVID-19 in the wake of a staff member working six shifts there despite having symptoms of the virus. Residents at the Anglicare Newmarch House in Caddens, near Penrith, were placed in lockdown on Saturday after the female worker tested positive. Health authorities said she worked six days there and another two days at the Greystanes Disability Services in Penrith while infected. Six staff, including the woman, have now tested positive along with four residents. In a statement, Anglicare Sydney said all residents in its Caddens facility were self-isolating in its rooms and it had deployed staff specially trained in working with COVID-19 to work residents who had tested positive. It said all other staff had been directed to wear full personal protective equipment when caring for residents. The Penrith Greystanes Disability Service also quarantined residents in the house she worked and placed several of its staff in home isolation.
April 14, 2020
Western Sydney Local Health District is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) contest in front of Vice President Catanzariti in chambers (by telephone) in Sydney (Stewart).
April 14, 2020
Department of Human Services & Randall have a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) set for adjudication before Deputy President Cross in Hearing Room 14-1 – Level 14 in Sydney (Merhi).
April 14, 2020
Ozcare is to face a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) to be ruled upon by Deputy President Lake in chambers in Brisbane (Pinder).
April 14, 2020
An application for approval of the Australian College of Nursing Enterprise Agreement 2020-2024 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Deputy President Cross in chambers in Sydney.
April 14, 2020
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from the Australian College of Nursing Ltd for its Australian College of Nursing Enterprise Agreement 2020-2024 has been ratified by Deputy President Cross in Sydney on 9 April 2020.
April 14, 2020
Stockland Development Pty Limited has a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) to answer before Deputy President Asbury in chambers in Brisbane (Hughes).
April 14, 2020
An elderly man accused of murder has had his case put off for six months because lawyers can’t secure a mental health report any sooner. Ronald George Sparkes, 89, is accused of murdering his 87-year-old wife Margaret Sparkes in a retirement village at The Basin, in Melbourne’s southeast, last May. He was initially being held in custody, but his lawyer told Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday that he was now on bail and living in a nursing home. She said he had become “very unwell” in custody and had been hospitalised for physical and mental health issues, prompting his release. Magistrate Donna Bakos said Sparkes’ case should be handed straight to the Supreme Court, bypassing the usual committal stage in the lower court. That has occurred in a large number of cases as courts try to work around coronavirus-related delays. But the case will instead return to the Magistrates Court in late-September because Sparkes’ lawyers are waiting for a report from Forensicare, a forensic mental health care group. The court heard the organisation is closed and staff have been doing remote assessments and interviews, which has created a six-month delay. Ms Bakos ordered Sparkes to appear in court, either in person or by video, in September.
