NEWS HR
June 26, 2017
Tomorrow Carolyn Diane Alleyne will be sentenced in the Manukau District Court after pleading guilty to six representative charges of theft by a person in a special relationship. When World War II veteran Ron Greenhalgh died on Father’s Day last year, he had nothing but the second-hand clothes on his back, after his daughter stripped him of his life savings and spent them. When Greenhalgh, 95, was admitted to a resthome with dementia, he had a home and significant savings at the end stages. Mike Greenhalgh says he feels betrayed after his sister Carolyn Diane Alleyne stole his fathers’ life savings while he had dementia. By the time he died, his daughter had allegedly spent about $250,000 of his money at the TAB and to maintain her own lifestyle, leaving him with barely enough to pay for his funeral.
June 23, 2017
Claire Austin has been appointed as the new Group Manager – Health Workforce New Zealand.
June 21, 2017
A Southland health worker who punched and strangled their partner has been sentenced to supervision. The person, whose identity and occupation is suppressed, appeared before Judge John Brandts-Giesen in the Invercargill District Court on Monday. The person had earlier admitted a charge of assault and applied for a discharge without conviction, but the judge declined, instead sentencing them to 12 months’ supervision. Judge Brandts-Giesen said the person had been drinking with their partner on February 28 when the couple began arguing. “I suspect you were drunk,” the judge said. When the partner was in bed, the person stood over them and punched their partner in the face, causing a bleeding nose and lip. They then grabbed their partner by the shirt and pounamu necklace, which caused them to struggle to breathe for a short time. The partner managed to get away, and went to a neighbour’s house to phone police, the judge said.
June 20, 2017
Elderly residents of a Morrinsville retirement village have been the latest victims of a group of offenders who seem intent on leaving a trail of destruction behind them. Public outcry on social media about a recent spate of crime in Morrinsville has done little to deter the offenders who in the most recent incident, slashed the tyres of five cars and one tyre of a mobility scooter at St Matthew’s retirement village. The tyres were so badly damaged, each of the 21 will have to be replaced.
June 16, 2017
Winton-born chartered accountant Denis Woods says he was looking forward to conducting “business as usual” for the Community Trust of Southland. Woods has been appointed as an interim manager while the trust seeks to replace its long-standing chief executive John Prendergast. Prendergast, this week said, he resigned from his open-ended contract last month.
June 15, 2017
Mental health staff in the Wairarapa, Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast areas have been injured on 83 occasions by patients over the past year. A staff member was forced to take 70 days’ sick leave after being assaulted while caring for a mental health client in the lower North Island. However, authorities hope a new shift in approach by frontline staff will help drive down patient-inflicted injuries in the future.
June 14, 2017
Mental health staff in the Wairarapa, Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast areas have been injured on 83 occasions by patients over the past year. A staff member was forced to take 70 days’ sick leave after being assaulted while caring for a mental health client in the lower North Island. However, authorities hope a new shift in approach by frontline staff will help drive down patient-inflicted injuries in the future. Newly-released figures from the mental health authority servicing the Wairarapa, Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast areas, known as 3DHB, show there were 135 instances of assaults by patients over the past 12 months.
June 1, 2017
Metlifecare has named Richard Thomson, Air New Zealand’s general manager commercial, as chief financial officer starting in mid-September.
