NEWS HR
March 22, 2018
A Bundaberg paramedic has died while abseiling in New Zealand. Verena Jantje Kuhl, known as Jantje, fell 100m to her death near Arthur’s Pass, in the Southern Alps of New Zealand’s South Island, on Sunday afternoon. Ms Kuehl, aged in her 30s, started work as an advanced care paramedic and flight paramedic in Bundaberg in 2014 with the Wide Bay Local Ambulance Service Network.
March 20, 2018
The Whanganui District Health Board has offered apologies to the family of an elderly woman who died of complications after district nurses failed to get urgent help for a deteriorating leg wound. Health and Disability commissioner Anthony Hill upheld complaints of inadequate care in a decision released on Monday. The woman’s condition and pain levels grew worse while waiting for a hospital appointment, and after attempts to save her leg, it was amputated below the knee and she died of complications at another hospital. Health board nursing director Sandy Blake said the board and one of the nurses involved in the 80-year-old’s care had formally apologised, and a second nurse had retired. The board had also improved systems to avoid repeating shortcomings identified by the commissioner. One problem was that three staff had independently assessed referrals for the woman, each unaware that there were others, and that her condition was getting worse.
March 20, 2018
Ebos Group has hired Telstra executive Shaun Hughes as chief financial officer after the health-care and pet-care products group promoted John Cullity to chief executive.
March 13, 2018
Allegations a senior doctor at Waikato Hospital sexually harassed and bullied a senior female colleague have been dismissed following an independent investigation. But the doctor has been told to stop his ‘tactile approach’. Waikato Hospital launched an urgent probe into allegations of sexual harassment and bullying in its general medicine department in April 2017. The allegations followed a damning report by the Medical Council of New Zealand, with claims bullying and harassment were under-reported at the hospital. The complaint focused on allegations made by a female senior clinician against a male colleague.
March 13, 2018
A doctor who drugged patients then sexually assaulted them has had his medical licence cancelled. On Friday the New Zealand Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal stripped Dr David Lim of his licence to practice in New Zealand, censuring him and ordering him to pay $4380 in costs. Lim, 42, dosed four men with a sedative then sexually assaulted them by rubbing their genitals.
March 13, 2018
A Christchurch woman has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud, after being involved in a scam that targeted elderly women who lived alone. From September 2015 to January 2016, a group of offenders obtained more than $270,000 from at least 30 victims. The women, aged between 74 and 95, were called and told there was a problem with their power or telephone account and that they owed money. The caller would say it needed to be resolved or else the victim’s power or phone would be cut off. They’d convince the women to hand over their PIN number for their bank card and someone would come and uplift their card. A female would then visit the victim’s address to collect the card.
March 13, 2018
The Dunedin health professional accused of murdering a 16-year-old girl will keep name suppression until his appeal is heard. The 30-year-old man accused of the murder of Amber-Rose Rush at her Corstorphine home had until 5pm yesterday to file the paperwork with the Court of Appeal. It has been confirmed that has been completed. The Court of Appeal will now set a date for the issue to be argued.
March 8, 2018
Ignite Architects has appointed Patrick Maguire as an Associate to the practice’s Special Projects team in Auckland. He will specialise in both the aviation and aged care sectors at Ignite.
