Coronial inquests will scrutinise practices at the Canberra Hospital after four patients died by suicide on its campus in less than two years. Three of those people were patients in the hospital’s mental health wards and one was a patient in a medical assessment ward.
October 16, 2017
A s.217 (Enterprise agreement) application by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation for a variation to a Correct Care Australasia Pty Ltd arrangement has been refused by Commissioner Cribb in Melbourne on 3 October 2017.
October 16, 2017
A young Sydney nurse is fighting for her life with critical leg injuries after a head-on collision with a care driven by a 14-year-old boy in Sydney’s west. Danielle Oldfield, 27, who works at Nepean Hospital, was trapped for almost an hour in her ute after a car driven by the youth allegedly crossed to the wrong side of the road at Werrington, in Sydney’s west.
October 16, 2017
A s.185 (Enterprise agreement) application by Uniting Communities Incorporated T/A Uniting Communities for its Uniting Communities Incorporated General Staff Agreement 2015 has been approved by Deputy President Colman in Melbourne on 10 October 2017.
October 16, 2017
Nurses and doctors at Perth’s most dangerous hospitals could soon wear stab-proof vests as new figures show staff members are reporting about 50 violent incidents each day.
October 16, 2017
Gillian Douglas has failed to make her unfair dismissal claim against Bynoe Community Advancement Cooperative Society Ltd stick.
October 16, 2017
Lewis Kaplan has been announced as the first CEO of OPAN.
October 16, 2017
A man suspected of killing a nurse in a hit-and-run crash in Melbourne’s south-east has been arrested and charged after spending three days on the run.
