Bolton Clarke has appointed Jim Toohey as the group’s executive general manager operating performance.
December 14, 2017
Tenterfield Care Centre Limited has had its Tenterfield Care Centre Limited NSWNMA and HSU NSW Enterprise Agreement 2017-2020 application stamped.
December 13, 2017
Mary Gamble, a former Dunedin midwife and outspoken health board member, has died. The “midwife to thousands of Dunedin families, and defiant ex-district health board member” had had a long battle with cancer.
December 13, 2017
A Cape York nurse has been charged with fraud after allegedly stealing morphine from her workplace. Police will allege the 41-year-old woman entered false information into a drug register to steal the drugs at a Weipa medical facility. She will appear in Cairns Magistrates Court on January 29 charged with two counts of fraud.
December 13, 2017
A nurse has been stood down from his hospital job in northern WA following an expletive-filled, racist rant on social media that threatened violence against children. On a Broome community Facebook page on Friday night, nurse Kevin Naughton responded to comments about children breaking into homes in the town. “Just f***ing bash them within an inch of their useless, worthless lives, they are nothing more than rats or cockroaches,” he wrote.
December 13, 2017
Blue Care & Smith and Others will front up to defend a s.372 (Application to deal with other contravention disputes) before Commissioner Simpson in Hearing Room 2 in Brisbane at 2pm (Brady).
December 13, 2017
Australian Capital Territory (as represented by the Health Directorate) will fight a s.739 (Application to deal with a dispute) in front of Deputy President Kovacic in his ACT chambers at 4.30 (Radulovic).
December 13, 2017
A 13-year-old boy died from an allergic reaction after eating breakfast at a Melbourne hospital, his mother has told an inquest, while a nurse has admitted his allergies were not properly recorded. The circumstances of his death, at Frankston Hospital in Melbourne’s outer south-east, is being investigated in the Coroners Court of Victoria.
