Legal Update - Incident Management in Aged Care, dealing with complaints and claims, the Coroner and Mandatory Reporting
This seminar will provide some legal guidance on dealing with adverse events in aged care and will cover incident management, mandatory reporting for aged care providers, what is required to be reported to the Coroner and dealing with coronial inquests and complaints and claims. The seminar will include a hypothetical workshop of the issues.
Aged care update
Incident management and mandatory reporting for aged care providers (other than Coroners) including:
(a) Australian Health Practitioner Regulation
(b) Aged Care legislation
(c) Therapeutic Goods and Poisons
(d) Police
Dealing with the Coroner
What is an unexpected death?
What is required to be reported to the Coroner?
Lessons learnt from Coroners' finding using case study examples.
Presented by Alison Choy Flannigan, Partner, Holman Webb Lawyers & Zara Officer, Special Counsel, Holman Webb Lawyers
