The NSW branch of the Hospital Services Union today unanimously voted to take industrial action across all NSW hospitals over concern for health workers' safety. At the annual delegates conference, the vote was carried unanimously by the 500 members in ...
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Aged care facility shuts with no notice, leaves 70 homeless
Seventy aged care residents have been left homeless after the operator closed the private facility abruptly and without warning on Thursday afternoon. Police were called to Earle Haven Retirement Village on Queensland’s Gold Coast amid reports of a disturbance. The 70 ...
More »Fake aged care nursing director guilty
A man who falsely claimed to be a nursing director at an aged care facility has been fined $60,000. The Victorian man was convicted in the Ringwood Magistrates’ Court last week of charges laid by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation ...
More »On the sauce: Are nurses drinking too much?
Australia is a country that likes a drink. Recently deceased former prime minister Bob Hawke was lauded for his larrikin persona and prowess at the bar. And, like many other countries, our national holidays often centre around getting on the ...
More »11 years nursing in a Tibetan prefecture
The first time Evan Ulbricht went to China he was 17 years old and it was a big trip. He went with his church to help out on medical, educational and agricultural projects and came back having met his future ...
More »Aged care home tried to cover up discovery of maggots
oor wound management led to an aged care resident having maggots found in her heel and the aged care home tried to cover it up, the royal commission has heard. Annunziata Santoro lived in residential aged care at Assisi Aged ...
More »‘My heart is crying’: royal commission Darwin
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety continues this week in Darwin and will look at aspects of care in residential, home and flexible aged care as well as issues those living in rural and remote communities face. ...
More »The cost of chronic disease in Australia: ABC’s 7.30 report
In the years 2017–18, just over 47 per cent of Australians had one or more chronic conditions. This is an increase of five per cent from the 2007–08 figures of just over 42 per cent. Chronic disease accounts for 37 per ...
More »New app ‘game changer’ in fight against flu outbreaks
As of June this year there has been a recorded 75 flu outbreaks in NSW aged care facilities, with 86 residents requiring hospitalisation and 18 recorded deaths. And this week, an aged care facility in NSW was put into lockdown after ...
More »Algorithm flags health practitioners who pose threats to patient safety
Health profession regulators have their eye on an algorithm that can identify practitioners at high risk of complaints. Called PRONE-HP (Predicted Risk of New Event for Health Practitioners) and developed by a team from The University of Melbourne and Stanford ...
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