The Aged Care Voluntary Industry Code of Conduct has now been launched. The Preamble states that the Code is designed to establish an aspirational framework that supports good governance and innovative, high-quality care and engagement through which: providers of aged...
The brand name may be included if it is clinically necessary for the patient, with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare (ACSQH) publishing a list of medicines where the inclusion of a brand name may be appropriate (here). Note, where the brand...
Our team has reviewed the report and make the following comments for Aged Care Providers. The six recommendations The Report makes six recommendations and the Australian Government has already announced that it will accept all recommendations. The recommendations are:...
The key issue This appeal concerned the issue of causation, specifically whether the developmental and cognitive impairments suffered by the Respondent were caused by the negligence of the Appellant. The background East Metropolitan Health Service (EMHS) was the legal...
The key issues The case concerned two issues: Whether the treating officer had considered the administration of adrenaline in accordance with the Practice Manual; and Whether a responsible body of opinion supported the treating officer’s decision to administer...
The key issues Whether the NSW Tribunal: applied the correct statutory test; and misinterpreted the expert evidence in finding that a cardiologist had engaged in unsatisfactory professional conduct in relation to 2 complaints made against him arising from his...
The Western Australian government has just issued further directions to residential aged care providers regarding the visitors permitted to residential aged care sites during the current public health state of emergency caused by COVID-19. The Visitors to Residential...
In August 2019 the Medical Board took immediate action against a doctor who had made comments on social media which the Board considered to be denigrating, demeaning and slurring of medical practitioners who provided termination of pregnancies and treated patients...
The Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2019 was passed by Parliament on 10 December 2019 and is currently awaiting Royal Assent. However, the Act will not become operational for approximately 18 months or so, to allow time for the Voluntary Assisted Dying Board to be...
Issues The Applicant lodged an appeal seeking review of a decision made by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW not to remove conditions imposed on her registration. The Tribunal were required to determine whether it was appropriate that the conditions be removed....