The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and Helpstreet Villages (Qld) Pty Ltd have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) to argue before Fair Work Commissioner Booth in his Brisbane chambers.
May 1, 2019
An application for approval of the Mildura Health Private Hospital Administrative and Support Staff Enterprise Agreement 2018 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Fair Work Deputy President Gostencnik in his Melbourne chambers.
May 1, 2019
Civic Park Family Medical Centre P/L will face a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Commissioner McKinnon in Court 12 and Conference Room A – Level 5 in Melbourne (Tirza).
April 30, 2019
The remains of Albert “Albie” Smith have been found more than six months after he walked out of his aged care home. Mr Smith walked out of Ballan Aged Care on the morning of October 8 and never returned. His Geelong daughter Wendy Smith, a Barwon Health nurse, desperately pleaded for information about her father’s disappearance Police spokeswoman Leading Senior Constable Natalie said the remains were found in bushland off Yendon-Egerton Road about 9.30am yesterday.
April 30, 2019
Central Gippsland Health Service is set to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) in front of Fair Work Deputy President Colman in Court 8 and Conference Room F – Level 6 in Melbourne.
April 30, 2019
The Australian Medical Association Victoria and Monash Health have a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) set for hearing by Fair Work Commissioner Lee in court 4 and Conference Room C – Level 6 in Melbourne.
April 30, 2019
A man has appeared in court charged with the attempted sexual assault of an 81-year-old woman in a retirement village south of Perth yesterday. Mandurah man Shannon James Fisher, 30, has been charged with attempted aggravated sexual penetration without consent. The woman was alone and asleep in her Greenfields unit in the early hours of yesterday morning when Mr Fisher allegedly broke in to her unit and grabbed her. He allegedly attempted to sexually assault the woman, but fled after she fought him off. Mr Fisher was remanded in custody to reappear in court on May 13.
April 30, 2019
An inquest will examine the circumstances surrounding the death of Viola Clarke, who died aged 89, days after a carer at her retirement village accidentally administered to her potent medication prescribed to someone else. The 20-year-old carer at Goodwin Village in Ainslie told the court she woke Ms Clarke to give her medicine but did not notice it was the wrong person, because when greeted by name the woman had not responded. She realised her mistake almost immediately, when seeing the next resident whose medication it was. Although an ambulance was called that night, Ms Clarke appeared well and was not taken to hospital. The next day she grew increasingly drowsy and another ambulance took her to Calvary Hospital, where she died on February 20 from aspiration pneumonia. Counsel assisting the coroner, Sarah Baker-Goldsmith, said a doctor at the hospital had referred the case to the coroner. Ms Clarke was a new admission to the high-level care facility on February 9, 2016. At about 9pm that night the carer administered 150mg of Lyrica and two tablets of Targin 10/5, which each contain 10mg of oxycodone and 5mg of the antidote naloxone. Lyrica is an anticonvulsant with potent sedating effects, while oxycodone is a highly addictive opiate that also causes sedation and respiratory depression. A medical expert, Dr Vanita Parekh, told the inquest Ms Clarke was opioid naive, and so the effect of the drug would have been profound – but also because the drug was slow-acting, any effects would not have been immediately obvious. The dose of Lyrica too had been high for a drug in which dosage is normally gradually increased, she said. The carer who administered the wrong dose also gave evidence, at one point turning to Ms Clarke’s family to apologise for what happened. The hearing is listed for three days.
