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We’re here for you Oakgrove Community Centre held its Biggest Morning Tea event in support of the Cancer Council on Wednesday 19 June. Held from 10.30am to 12.30pm, the focus revolved around support and advocating for those impacted by cancer, with the event marking the first step in the centre’s $1800 goal for research, support services and prevention programs. Story page 12 David Haynes and Manasi Dhamankar at Oakgrove’s morning tea. 411469 Picture: GARY SISSONS
‘Direct care’ only By Violet Li Hampton Park Women’s Health Clinic director Dr Michelle Kenney has been granted a stay with conditions on her recent suspension, the state tribunal heard. The conditions stipulate that she may only practise medicine in roles providing direct clinical care to patients, and must not practise in any role and/or position which includes responsibility for clinical governance, or management or supervision of other health practitioners or students.
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Dr Kenney was suspended as a medical practitioner on 17 May by the Medical Board of Australia. According to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT), the board took immediate action after noting that the Department of Health suspended the clinic’s registration as a day procedure centre on 29 February following two days of inspection. The Department of Health stated that the clinic’s day procedure service was operating in a way that posed serious risks to patient health
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or safety and the clinic had also failed to comply with the relevant regulations. The clinic was found to fail to assess the credentials of medical practitioners appropriately. The anesthetist Dr Tony Chow, apparently hired by others when Dr Kenney was away the VCAT report said - had a condition on his registration that only allowed him to practise at Knox Hospital. Other non-compliance included infection control, failure to ensure adequate training of
staff involved in surgery and anesthesia and inadequate review of events. VCAT noted that before the suspension of the clinic, Dr Kenney had contacted the Department of Health in November 2023 to report the compliance issues she discovered on her return from health and personal reasons. It appeared she had begun to take steps to address issues, but the department’s inspection recorded some issues had not been rectified, VCAT documents said. Continued page 10
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