Background In 2019, Peta Hickey, a 43-year-old woman with no medical history of cardiac problems, agreed to take part in a voluntary corporate heart check program her employer introduced for its senior executives. The program involved participants undergoing a CT...
Facts The patient underwent a tubal ligation with the practitioner, who applied Filshie clips to both the patient’s fallopian tubes to occlude them. When approximately nine months later, the patient fell pregnant with her fourth child, she sued the practitioner in...
The Background Dr Benedicto, as an international medical graduate, had limited registration as a medical practitioner, requiring her to practise under supervision. During the period October 2015 to May 2017, Dr Benedicto was alleged to have provided substandard...
The background Dr Constantin Jigau self-notified to the Medical Board of Australia (the Board) in October 2018 after he received a determination from the Professional Services Review Committee on 24 October 2018 which related to his rendering of services under 9 MBS...
The Background Dr Sorough Ziaee was ordered to pay damages to his patient, Mr Michael Rubino after he failed to adequately follow up after a referral to a surgeon in the public system in the ACT. Mr Rubino consulted Dr Ziaee at first in July 2013, in relation to the...
The Background Dr Piesse accepted liability for five serious allegations, namely: Signing 149 false immunisation exemption certificates for unvaccinated children between January and August 2017 in circumstances where he knew they did not meet the statutory criteria...
The review will be led by the outgoing Queensland Health Ombudsman Andrew Brown and will consider the current risk-based regulatory framework of AHPRA and National Boards and examine the current codes of conduct, the notifications and investigations protocols and the...
The Inquiry’s terms of reference encompassed issues about the care and treatment provided to Aishwarya Aswath prior to her death in April 2021, the conduct of the root cause analysis undertaken at the Hospital following the death, ED staffing and patient flow models,...
Facts From 2008 to 2015, Dr Barhar was the Director of Obstetrics at Bacchus Marsh Hospital. Following a higher than State average rate of perinatal mortality during his tenure, in 2015 the Department of Health commissioned a review, which identified “catastrophic and...
While the receipt of a notification is not within your control, what you do in caring for your patients – from an initial consult through to discharge – certainly is. And while it is the quality of the care which is critically important, the documentation of such care...