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Subscriber only SENSATIONAL claims of cover ups and corruption in one of Tasmania s major hospitals have come to light, as a man breaks his silence over another alleged paedophile nurse. Ben Felton, 44, was abused by a nurse in Launceston General Hospital as a teenager, according to independent journalist Camille Bianchi, in her podcast The Nurse, where last year she revealed the horrific crimes of James Geoffrey Griffin. Launceston General Hospital nurse James (Jim) Geoffrey Griffin. SOURCE: SUPPLIED Griffin was charged with a dozen child sex abuse offences after 30 years working at the hospital. He committed suicide shortly after he was charged.
New allegations of historic sexual abuse at Launceston General Hospital
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MonMonday 15
FebFebruary 2021 at 6:14pm
Ben Felton says he has self-harmed, self-medicated, I have tried to run away but no more.
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Five minutes of alleged sexual abuse perpetrated against Ben Felton when he was only 13 has had a profound impact on the now 44-year-old s entire life.
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New allegations have emerged about the Launceston General Hospital s handling of allegations of child sexual abuse
Ben Felton, now 44, says a male nurse sexually assaulted him when he was admitted to the LGH aged 13
The allegations follow the explosive revelations a paedophile nurse continued working at the LGH while under police investigation in 2019
LGH implements blood labelling standard and BloodNet interface in TrakCare Written by Kate McDonald on
18 January 2021.
Tasmania’s Launceston General Hospital has been able to cut the time it takes to receipt and record blood products by 75 per cent using the new blood labelling standard with a digital interface in its TrakCare laboratory information software to the National Blood Authority’s (NBA) BloodNet online ordering and inventory management system.
The Information Standard for Blood and Transplant (ISBT 128) is being adopted across the world to enhance safety and supply security and improve inventory management. It creates a unique identifier for blood products and in Australia replaces a local Codabar standard.
Five years after the Tasmanian Government pledged to put patients first, hospital wait times remain a sore point
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WedWednesday 13
JanJanuary 2021 at 7:37pm
While Luke Emery has had positive experiences with the hospital system, his mother says other family members have not.
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The 2016 Tasmanian Government initiative Patients First was supposed to help with access to two of the state s major hospitals
Two further initiatives aimed at improving access to the Launceston General Hospital and Royal Hobart Hospital were announced late last year
Despite these, in the first two weeks of 2021, both hospitals reported more issues with ambulance ramping