Civic Disability Services Limited is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Deputy President Sams in Hearing Room 14-1 – Level 14 in Sydney. (Machaya).
April 12, 2019
Ballarat Health Service’s Talbot Place aged care home has failed three accreditation standards during its latest audit.
April 12, 2019
Logan Hospital has been forced to correct a memo it issued ordering ambulances to wait outside the emergency department with patients if all its offload bays are full at the facility, as the ambulance union says hospital staff are using “standover tactics” to keep paramedics waiting outside. Queensland Health has spoken to Metro South Hospital and Health Service’s chief executive Dr Stephen Ayre and Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) commissioner Russell Bowles urging them to work together to resolve rising tensions between paramedics and emergency department staff at the facility south of Brisbane. Under a “rapid transfer” process put in place last year, nine designated areas are in place at the hospital to allow paramedics to offload patients into emergency departments, so ambulances could get back on the road. Yesterday, Logan Hospital issued a memo stating that if all nine bays were full, emergency department staff should request paramedics to wait outside the hospital until a bed was available — a process known as “ramping”. But Queensland Health director-general Michael Walsh said the memo was wrong. “The process when an ambulance arrives is: the person is triaged and the most appropriate location for a person to be cared for while they wait — if they don’t need to be critically assessed and moved into the emergency department — is arranged inside,” Mr Walsh said. “The memo which said that people needed to go outside is incorrect and has been corrected. “I want to be clear that nobody who arrives at our emergency departments are turned away. Mr Walsh said the rapid transfer process worked smoothly at several other hospital and health services and he had urged the head of Metro South and the QAS to sort through the issue. “That is something we need to hear back as to how they’re going to improve it and make the process work smoothly,” Mr Walsh said.
April 12, 2019
A Sydney-based doctor has told a jury that allegations he sexually or indecently assaulted 16 female patients are incorrect, untrue and “absolutely wrong”. While under cross-examination at Downing Centre District Court on Thursday, general practitioner Sharif Fattah also dismissed the Crown’s suggestion his medical records from the time “don’t fairly and accurately reflect” everything that happened. “I strongly disagree,” Fattah said to prosecutor Tony McCarthy. “There is no reason for me to believe that my notes are inaccurate.” The 62-year-old, who was a GP in New Zealand for 20 years, has pleaded not guilty to 30 charges of sexual and indecent assault allegedly committed for his own sexual gratification over six months from September 2016. Fattah started working at a health centre in Sydney earlier that year. The female complainants, who were all patients at the medical practice, are aged between 19 and 40.
April 12, 2019
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application from Amana Living Incorporated T/A Amana Living for the Amana Living Residential Care Staff Enterprise Agreement 2018 has been passed by Fair Work Commissioner McKinnon in Melbourne on 11 April 2019.
April 12, 2019
Supported Tenancy Accommodation and respite Tasmania Inc is still answering a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Deputy President Barclay in Hearing Room 8, First Floor in Hobart. (Raymond)
April 12, 2019
Epworth Foundation will have to deal with a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) before Fair Work Commissioner Yilmaz in Court 3 & Conference Room B – Level 6 in Melbourne (Haliwell).
April 12, 2019
Bolton Clarke (RSL Care RNDS Limited) is facing a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) in the Fair Work Commission before Deputy President Lake in chambers in Brisbane. (Geissberger).
