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The Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment (Royal Commission Response No.2) Bill 2021 – A Summary
The Bill will amend the Aged Care Act 1997 (Cth) and the Aged Care (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 (Cth) to enable the introduction of eight...
Dealing with Employees’ Requests For Leave During the Pandemic
COVID19 illness of an employee or of an employee’s dependent; employees having to quarantine or self-isolate; employees having to home school...
Critical Workers in Social Assistance and Residential Care settings
Please see below a summary of the guidelines as it applies to the residential aged care sector. In a residential aged care setting, where a critical...
Critical Worker Policy – What you need to know
As announced today, from 12.01am on Thursday, 10 March 2022 the “very high” caseload setting will take effect, allowing all eligible industries...
Tribunal finds allegations of sexual assault on sedated patients unsubstantiated
Background The practitioner is a gastroenterologist and hepatologist who regularly performs colonoscopies and rectal examinations on sedated female...
Not a fact finding exercise: Supreme Court dismisses Board appeal on immediate action
The appeal was principally concerned with the statutory interpretation of section 156(1)(a) of the National Law. That section provides, relevantly,...
Case Summary | Queensland GP avoids suspension following sex with patient
Background Patient A was a patient of the practitioner for 7 years (from 2011 to 2018), during which time he provided her general medical services,...
Coroner refers medical practitioners to Ahpra following corporate health screening
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...
Case Summary | Court of Appeal upholds patient’s award of over $400,000 following failed tubal ligation
Facts The patient underwent a tubal ligation with the practitioner, who applied Filshie clips to both the patient’s fallopian tubes to occlude them....
Case summary | Junior doctor avoids suspension despite poor clinical and administrative decision-making
The Background Dr Benedicto, as an international medical graduate, had limited registration as a medical practitioner, requiring her to practise...