The NZ senior doctors’ union has a new team at the helm. Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS), says a new National Executive takes office for a three-year term from 1 April. Canterbury DHB gastroenterologist and clinical pharmacologist Professor Murray Barclay will take over as National President from Tairawhiti DHB paediatrician Dr Hein Stander. The confirmed list of office holders and regional representatives on the National Executive is: • National President Murray Barclay (gastroenterologist and clinical pharmacologist, Canterbury) • Vice-President Julian Fuller (anaesthetist, Waitemata) • Immediate Past-President Hein Stander (paediatrician, Tairawhiti) • Region 1 – Julian Vyas (paediatrics, Auckland) and Andrew Ewens (emergency medicine, Waitemata) • Region 2 – Paul Wilson (anaesthetist, Bay of Plenty) and Annette van Zeist-Jongman (psychiatry, Waikato) • Region 3 – Tim Frendin (geriatric medicine, Hawke’s Bay) and Angela Freschini (anaesthesia, Tairawhiti) • Region 4 – Katie Ben (anaesthetist, Nelson Marlborough) and Seton Henderson (intensivist, Canterbury).
April 3, 2018
Manning-Great Lakes Police District reported on its Facebook page they were called to Old Bar on Saturday night due to a person causing trouble at an aged care facility.
April 3, 2018
A proprietor and his employee pharmacists have been cautioned over failure to properly control dispensing of the Schedule 8 medicine Endone According to PDL, a notification was made to AHPRA concerning the proprietor of a pharmacy, which had allegedly failed to appropriately control the dispensing of Endone to an employee of an aged care facility. The notification alleged that pharmacists had dispensed the medication following receipt of medication charts from the facility without a valid prescription. The request would usually comprise a cover page which detailed the requested medication, and the corresponding drug chart. In the event that the pharmacy could not locate a current prescription on file, the medication was nevertheless supplied to a staff member of the facility in the interests of ensuring continuity of supply. However, S8 medications cannot be supplied without a valid prescription or telephone order. In response, AHPRA proposed to caution the proprietor and impose a condition that he undertake a one-off audit. Kellie Dell’Oro, Principal at Meridian Lawyers, explained in a PDL alert that even though the proprietor had not personally dispensed the medication, he was responsible for ensuring the pharmacists were lawfully dispensing S8 medications. The proprietor was also found to be responsible for ensuring the employee pharmacists were carrying out regular and appropriate medication checks at the facility. Three pharmacists who had actually dispensed the medication, one of whom was a recent graduate, were cautioned by AHPRA and reminded of their dispensing obligations.
April 3, 2018
A s.185 (Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) from Moonta Health and Aged Care Services Inc for the Moonta Health and Aged Care Service Inc Nursing Employees Enterprise Agreement 2017 has been ratified by Fair Work Commissioner Harper-Greenwell in Melbourne on 23 march 2018.
April 3, 2018
Lobethal and District Aged Homes Incorporated will defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Commissioner Platt in his Adelaide chambers at 10am (Clarke).
April 3, 2018
Bendigo Health Care Group is facing a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Deputy President Anderson in Hearing Room 6.2 – Level 6 in Adelaide (Collins).
April 3, 2018
Graham Catt has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
April 3, 2018
Lendlease Management Services Limited is defending a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) before Fair Work Deputy President Bill in his Sydney chambers (Simpson).
