The key issue The considerations to be taken into account when considering a suppression order application. The background A GP applied for a suppression order in respect of his name as published in a decision of 5 January 2018. That decision relates to a finding of...
The background The case relates to the performance and conduct of a practitioner who carried out cosmetic surgery, principally breast augmentation surgery, on 12 patients. The matter also concerns the practitioner’s convictions for carrying out surgery on nine...
The key issue Whether, and if so what, immediate action should be taken against Dr Kelvin Vo, following an allegation made to police and notified to the Medical Board of Australia (Board) that he engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with a male patient during a...
The key issue The key issue in this case was whether there was a reasonable basis for the Board to take immediate action in relation to social media commentary. The background The case relates to the appeal of a decision by the Immediate Action Committee of the Board...
The background The case relates to an optometrist (the respondent) who was alleged to have changed the results of sight tests entered by another optometrist (other Optometrist) on the store database on 410 occasions between February 2015 and January 2016. The IT...
The NSW District Court granted leave for a Plaintiff to join the defendant’s medical indemnity organisation as a named second defendant. The key issue Whether there was an arguable case that the insurance policies held by the defendant would respond to the plaintiff’s...
Part IIBA of the Health Insurance Act 1973 (“Act”) prohibits asking for, accepting, offering and providing various forms of ‘benefit’ in connection with the provision of pathology services. A key area in which benefits are prone to arise – whether advertently or...
The Plaintiff presented to the Campbelltown Hospital ED on 21 August 2015 with a non-functioning colostomy and abdominal pain, having undergone a Hartmann’s procedure for perforated sigmoid diverticular abscess in October 2014. The Plaintiff was admitted, found to...
Although implementation of these ‘Stage 1’ reforms may have been beneficial overall for residents and prospective residents, perceived problems have persisted. Against this backdrop, public consultation for ‘Stage 2’ reforms is underway. A total of five Consultation...
Approved providers of home care will be aware that reforms aimed at transparency and comparability of home care pricing information, and the reduction of high administration costs, have applied to new home care recipients since 1 July 2019. For pre-existing...