Vocational Regulation matters, which include disciplinary and professional regulation of health practitioners, lawyers, security agents and real estate and settlement agents, comprised only 3% of matters in the Tribunal for 2015/16 period, with 80% of those matters...
The New South Wales Supreme Court (NSWSC) has found that a doctor did not breach his duty of care in his diagnosis of the presence of a plantar wart instead of melanoma in the deceased's foot. The Court accepted that at the times the treating doctors saw the lesion on...
At the COAG Health Council meeting on 7 October 2016, Health Ministers agreed to proceed with amendments to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (the National Law) to bring paramedics into the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (NRAS) for health...
A nurse practitioner was found to have engaged in professional misconduct after billing Medicare inappropriately and engaging in multiple boundary violations. The nurse practitioner provided therapy at centres providing crisis and homeless accommodation to adults and...
We have previously blogged about the earlier decisions in this matter. Oshin Kiszko was diagnosed with medulloblastoma in December 2015 and underwent surgical removal of the brain tumour. His parents refused conventional post-surgical treatment, and in March 2016 the...
Factual background The patient consulted the cardiothoracic surgeon about her palmar hyperhidrosis (PHH) and was provided with a brochure about the bilateral endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy which outlined the risks of the procedure. The surgeon also discussed the...
The resident had been with the aged care organisation for many years. She had an acquired brain injury, an intellectual disability and difficulty speaking. Her finances were being managed by State Trustees. Some of the resident’s money was held by the aged care...
It used to be the case that there was no national legislation prohibiting workplace bullying. This meant that a worker who wanted to pursue a bullying claim had to rely on general laws such as workers’ compensation laws, anti-discrimination laws and common law claims....