Qld health accused of fudgin더킹카지노g bed figures to avoid responsibility for NSW deaths

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A Victorian health authority has admitted its Bedsteads unit “did not carry out its duties” by including vital records for deaths in NSW until 2013.

Key points: Unit used the “death” database to identify beds where someone was bed-ridden for up to two years

Unit used “death” database to identify beds where a death occurred within two years of someone dying

Welfare workers found record-keeping errors, resulting in errors being reported to Centrelink

Health authorities across NSW have said they are “deeply ashamed” of “a gross breach of trust” by the Bedsteads unit.

The health authority admitted to breaches and ordered the company involved to pay a $20,000 fine, but admitted its error affected “thousands of beds”.

The unit used the “death” database to identify beds where someone was bed-ridden for more than two years.

The unit also used “death” to include beds where people died before they had turned 18.

Health authorities discovered the error when they were investigating a woman’s bed-wetting death in May 2014.

The woman died in a nursing home in Wollongong, south of Melbourne.

T카지노 사이트here were no beds available in the centre where she had been bed-ridden for 카지노 사이트the past three months.

The WA Health Authority said it would pay out more than $7,000 in support services in the case.

The health authority’s interim chief executive officer, Michelle Macdonald, said the incident was a serious error that affected hundreds of beds.

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