Staff at Waitemata DHB, including workers at North Shore Hospital, are increasingly reporting abuse from patients and visitors. Abusive incidents involving staff at Auckland’s Waitemata District Health Board are on the rise. The DHB reported 169 health and safety incidents causing harm to staff, across its services in June, of which 36 were physical assaults. It is the highest number of events in a single month recorded for the 24 months prior, equal to the number reported in September last year. The incidents included 33 body assaults and 19 general verbal assaults, 17 slips, trips or falls, and eight which were the result of unsafe practices or procedures. There was one incident of assault with a hand-held weapon, two assaults with a projectile, one incident of bullying or harassment, and three verbal assaults labelled threats.
August 25, 2017
Life Without Barriers has a (s.739 – Application to deal with a dispute) being reviewed by Commissioner Simpson in his Brisbane chambers at 2pm (Seck).
August 24, 2017
Georgie Ferrari has been appointed chief executive of the Wellington Community Trust, replacing Mark Cassidy who departed in February 2017.
August 24, 2017
A flight crew member has been found “incapacitated” before starting a shift with Air Ambulance Victoria. The man was found in his car on Thursday according to a statement from operator Pel-Air, and it’s unclear whether he was drug or alcohol affected. The staff member has been stood down and Pel-Air has signalled increased drug and alcohol testing of flight crew.
August 24, 2017
Anglican Community Services has a s.394 – Application for unfair dismissal remedy (Asher) up before Commissioner McKenna in hearing room 12-2 – level 12 in Sydney at 3.30pm.
August 24, 2017
The new Perth Children’s Hospital has suffered a further blow with another senior health bureaucrat overseeing the trouble-plagued hospital revealing he is moving on. PCH commissioning executive director Dr Gervase Chaney is the latest in a string of senior public servants who have recently left key roles within the WA Health Department.
August 24, 2017
San Carlo Homes for the Aged & Alleva and Others have a (s.576(2)(aa) – Promoting cooperative and productive workplace relations and preventing disputes) before Commissioner Cribb on-site at San Carlo Italian Aged Care, 970 Plenty Road, South Morang VIC 3752 today.
August 24, 2017
Bidgerdii Community Health Service is set to defend a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) from a staff member (VanDenBrink) before Commissioner Saunders in Court House Cnr East and Fitzroy Streets Rockhampton today.
