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COAG Health Council meeting considers paramedics, midwives and chiropractors
At the COAG Health Council meeting on 7 October 2016, Health Ministers agreed to proceed with amendments to the Health Practitioner Regulation...
Importance of providing coroner with detailed evidence of root cause analysis and corrective action
The inquest In Inquest into the death of Michael James Calder, Deputy State Coroner Lock of the Coroners Court in Queensland considered the...
Are you ready for the new business-to-business unfair contract term laws?
ACCC Deputy Chair Dr Michael Schaper has explained that ”the new law will apply when a term in a small business standard form contract: causes a...
Unfair Contract Terms Alert
From 12 November 2016 small businesses will be afforded the same protection that consumers currently have from unfair contract terms under the...
Nurses disciplined for using restraints on vulnerable patient with dementia
The patient was initially restrained for some two hours in the Ward’s lounge room. Thereafter while he was still being restrained in a chair by...
Mother awarded $1.8m in damages after her baby dies in hospital
Background In mid-April 2010, the mother suffered from a severe attack of gastroenteritis. She was required to attend Wagga Wagga Base Hospital...
HR Toolbox Blog
Reasonable Management Action Trumps Bullying Claim A manager recently was successful in satisfying the Fair Work Commission that anti-bullying...
RACGP calls for electronic-only patient communication
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has released a position paper calling for all healthcare services and government...
HR Toolbox Blog
Accessorial Liability and HR Advisers – Don’t Get Caught in the FWO’s Net In a recent speech to the Australian Human Resources Institute, the Fair...
Abuse of MBS privileges improper and unethical
A nurse practitioner was found to have engaged in professional misconduct after billing Medicare inappropriately and engaging in multiple boundary...