NSW Government, published 27 August 2010
“The objects of this Regulation are:
(a) to prescribe certain conditions or illnesses the treatment of which is not to be regarded as psychosurgery, so that neurological procedures carried out to relieve symptoms of those conditions or illnesses are not prohibited as psychosurgery, and
(b) to update references to the Protective Commissioner, as the functions of the Protective Commissioner have been taken over by the NSW Trustee and Guardian.”
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Archive for category New South Wales Health Services
HCCC statement, 2 September 2010
“The Health Care Complaints Commission recently prosecuted a complaint against a chiropractor, Mr Kristin Scott Stoker, before the Chiropractors Tribunal. The Commission’s prosecution was based on Mr Stoker’s conviction for an incident of “wilful and obscene exposure”. …the Tribunal said that it was not satisfied that Mr Stoker was not of good character and unfit to be registered as a chiropractor…The Tribunal imposed a condition of Mr Stoker’s registration that, for the next two years, an adult female would have to be present when Mr Stoker was assessing or treating any female patient under the age of 45 years, unless the patient was accompanied by a parent or male guardian and the patient consents.”
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HCCC statement, 31 August 2010
“In 2007, the Health Care Complaints Commission prosecuted Ms Mebra Kakaire, a registered and enrolled nurse, before a Nurses and Midwives Professional Standards Committee. The Committee referred the matter to the Nurses and Midwives Tribunal to consider deregistration and/or suspension of Ms Kakaire, because the Committee did not have the power to make such an order. The Tribunal heard two complaints brought by the Health Care Complaints Commission. The first alleged that Ms Kakaire was guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct in that she had provided poor care and treatment to children while working at the Children’s Hospital, Westmead. The second complaint alleged that Ms Kakaire suffered from an impairment that made her unfit to practise as a nurse. In its decision of 26 August 2010, the Tribunal found both complaints against Ms Kakaire proven and deregistered her for a minimum period of two years.”
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SMH, By Bellinda Kontominas, 4 September 2010
“An intellectually disabled woman is suing the Department of Community Services, saying it imprisoned her in a residential centre for the disabled. Joanne Darcy had initially been placed at the Kanangra Centre for two months after she was charged over a fight about a pushbike. But it was not until more than six years later that she was allowed to leave the facility near Newcastle, where, she says, she lived under lock and key.”
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SMH, By Kate Benson, 3 September 2010
“A Sydney woman will launch a class action against NSW Health after autopsy results showed her husband had been riddled with a disease the Health Department says does not exist in Australia. Karl McManus, 44, died in July after being bitten by a tick while filming the television show Home and Away in Sydney. The autopsy indicated he had bacteria from Lyme disease in his liver, heart, kidney and lungs.”
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HCCC statement, 26 August 2010
“In its decision of 26 August 2010, the Tribunal found Mr Grentell guilty of professional misconduct. The Tribunal noted that Mr Grentell ‘was not yet willing to take responsibility for his poor nursing practice and … did not understand or have insight into his professional obligation to abide by the directions of those responsible for regulating his profession’. …The Tribunal deregistered Mr Grentell for a minimum period of two years.”
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HCCC statement, 26 August 2010
“The Health Care Complaints Commission prosecuted Ms Lynda Grant, a registered nurse and midwife, before the Nurses and Midwives Tribunal. The Commission alleged that Ms Grant directed another nurse to disconnect a patient’s bedside buzzer and failed to reconnect the buzzer when she attended to the patient. The Commission also alleged that Ms Grant made inadequate entries in the patient’s medical notes. In its decision of 26 August 2010, the Tribunal found Ms Grant guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct in relation to her inadequate documentation in the medical notes. The Tribunal also found Ms Grant guilty of professional misconduct in relation to the disconnected buzzer.”
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SMH, By Julie Robotham, 28 August 2010
“Hospital emergency departments need bigger blood pressure cuffs, larger beds and more lifting devices such as overhead hoists to manage the growing proportion of patients who are obese or morbidly obese, a study says. The study documents for the first time in Australia doctors’ and nurses’ difficulties in treating such people.”
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SMH, By Kim Arlington, 28 August 2010
“”JULIA” is detained indefinitely in a hospital psychiatric unit after stabbing her father and teenaged sister to death while in the grip of psychosis in 2007. Her psychiatrist, Yolande Lucire, was yesterday banned from treating any more patients after the NSW Medical Tribunal found there were serious shortcomings in the way she managed the 25-year-old’s illness.”
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SMH, By Louise Hall, 28 August 2010
“A UN official says he is ”very impressed” by the medically supervised injecting centre in Kings Cross, which has been operating on a trial basis for almost a decade. The executive director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibe, said it was a ”pragmatic, cost-effective” way to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and prevent deaths of intravenous drug users, who were often homeless or mentally ill. Mr Sidibe would not be drawn on the state government’s decision not to grant the centre a permanent licence, which forces Parliament to vote on an extension of the relevant legislation every four years.”
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