Nursing and Midwifery Board decision: AHPRA notification frivolous and vexatious
Hall Payne recently acted for a member of the Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union who had an Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency notification made against their registration. We robustly argued that the allegations were vexatious, untrue and incapable of being substantiated.
Health practitioners’ obligations to continually update National Board
Once registered, all health practitioners have obligations to continually disclose certain events to their National Board, throughout the registration year.
Nursing misconduct penalty reduced amidst exceptional mitigating circumstances
A registered nurse who had started a relationship with a former patient admitted to allegations of professional misconduct brought by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA). The NMBA sought…