Upper Yarra
Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
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Crank it up! By Callum Ludwig
Winding up for the wood chop.
Picture: TOM LINDSAY
Crank Up came back as strong as ever in 2024. Upper Yarra Historical Society President Lee Pannett said it was once again a great display of heritage and vintage machinery and trades. “We had popular draught horses getting pets from young and old while also displaying the true meaning of horsepower, power sledding and running the horseworks which powered the water pump, as well as old trades on display and market stalls that made for a great day out,” he said. On Sunday Crank Up became the home for the heritage sport of Woodchop with some of Australia’s finest and up-and-coming axemen who gave us an amazing show of skill, strength and the determination required to compete in his heritage sport.” Turn to page 16 for more
High price paid By Callum Ludwig A Warburton nurse who self-reported her failure to maintain her professional indemnity insurance (PII) arrangements to the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) has been reprimanded, seven years after the fact. Belinda Lloyd had been qualified and registered as a nurse since 1987 and had been a credentialed mental health nurse since 2010. In 2012, Ms Lloyd started a private practice as a mental health nurse in Warburton, es-
tablished and managed a community health and wellness centre in Warburton from 2013 to 2015 and was the only point of access for mental health nursing services through the Commonwealth Government Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) program in the Warburton area while also working two days a week at a community health service from February 2016. In late May 2013, the PII arrangements Ms Lloyd held through the Health and Community Services Union lapsed. Her work at the
community health service from 2016 was covered by her employer, but her private practice work was not and hadn’t been since it lapsed in 2013. After a visit to her insurance broker revealed to her on 20 June 2017 that she didn’t have the appropriate coverage for her private practise, Ms Lloyd verbally reported her indiscretion and ceased private practise, which she consolidated in writing on 28 June 2017. The NMBA did not open an investigation until 5 October that year and did not refer the matter
to VCAT until 11 May 2022. With Ms Lloyd expressing remorse and having faced the significant impact of the damage to her career during the seven years of uncertainty during the investigation, VCAT found Ms Lloyd had faced ‘significant unfairness’ and that her conduct while her misconduct was ‘not intentional’, it was still serious and a reprimand was the appropriate punishment, especially given Ms Lloyd is no longer registered nor intends to re-register as a nurse. Turn to page 4 for more
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