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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...
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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...
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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...
David Tune to Lead Major Review of Aged Care Reforms
Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, Ken Wyatt AM, MP announced the appointment of David Tune AO PSM to lead the Aged Care Legislated...
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Are you across your health and safety responsibilities in the workplace? Generally, the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984 (WA) (the Act) and...
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Updated Workplace Bullying Prevention and Management Guides Safe Work Australia have published updated versions of their anti-bullying guides. The...
Review on the use of chaperones: should the chaperone system be scrapped?
Currently, 47 doctors Australia-wide are under conditions requiring a chaperone as a temporary protective measure, allowing them to continue to...
Public Health Act 2016
To provide a flexible and proactive framework for the regulation of public health, the West Australian Parliament has passed the Public Health Act...