EXCLUSIVE: NT Fire and Emergency Services will not disclose the findings of an internal integrity unit investigation into the firefighter overtime system, or the results of a now-binned audit conducted by an outside contractor, which the agency said was commissioned due to fraud concerns, but which the union representing firies says was only ordered to retaliate against a member who raised overtime concerns.
Royal Darwin Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit was returned to a “higher level of care” with less beds, three days after the NT Independent revealed it had been downgraded, but the Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation said it feared the move to restore services was a knee jerk reaction to media coverage.
Two people suffered critical injuries, and one person serious injuries, in a hit-and-run near the coastal reserve in Brinkin overnight, NT Police said.
The Fair Work Commission has found the deduction of a portion of NT firefighters’ time-in-lieu hours accrued as part of compulsory overtime from their annual recreation leave, was contrary to the original agreement signed with the Northern Territory Government, suggesting the practice of wiping their banked hours if not used within a year bordered on wage theft.
The idea of re-opening the old Berrimah prison again as an adult prison is a confusing development writes Gerry Wood.
Police are looking for a man who allegedly indecently exposed himself in Woodroffe this morning.
NT Health refuses to explain what led it to order an ‘external’ governance review of St John Ambulance NT, after the review terms of reference show it was brought about following investigations into clinical cases, instead issuing a statement to now claim the review is a “standard quality assurance activity”.
EXCLUSIVE: NT Health is conducting an external review of how St John Ambulance NT operates, following recent cases where its dealings with patients needed to be investigated, the review terms of reference state.
The NT Police Association has said an extra 200 officers recruited over fours years is a good first step to improving policing, while some officers on sick leave had been “damaged” by the lack of resources provided by the government and executive and would never be coming back to work, which has also led to a need for more officers.
Royal Darwin Hospital has minimal neonatologist and nurses qualified to work in its neonatal intensive care unit, which led to its level of care in the unit being downgraded, the Nursing and Midwifery Federation has said.
The neonatal intensive care unit at Royal Darwin Hospital is no longer treating children born before 32 weeks gestation because of a lack of staff, the Health Department has said, with no timeframe for when it will be caring for younger babies again.
Police Commissioner Michael Murphy has had to ask South Australia to send police to Alice Springs because some kids from the APY lands who were “not aware of the curfew” were in town, the Police Minister has claimed amid differing reasons for the reinforcements, but said it had nothing to do with the riots in the streets last week which led to an “emergency situation” declared and youth curfew.
