Central Victoria local news briefing: Wednesday, November 11, 2026

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Bendigo Health notified Safer Care Victoria and reviewed four years of patient files. Workers at Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre in Central Victoria have been paid $7 million in…

A review of deaths at Bendigo Health's intensive care unit has found procedures for determining brain death were not always followed, with two deaths referred to the Victorian coroner.

Independent intensive care specialists found Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society guidelines were not followed when 11 patients were determined brain dead between June 2021 and June 2025.

While some cases were found to involve administrative errors, four raised significant concerns and two were referred to the Coroner's Court of Victoria.

Bendigo Health notified Safer Care Victoria and reviewed four years of patient files.

Workers at Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre in Central Victoria have been paid $7 million in compensation for occupational violence over three years.

Data obtained under Freedom of Information laws showed staff reported an incident every 2.6 days on average in the three years before its closure in 2023.

Incidents included physical and verbal assaults, exposure to aggression or violence and assaults with biological material.

Former worker Justin White was attacked by inmates with a plastic cricket bat in 2019.

"I have severe PTSD, and that's something I'm going to navigate for a long time," he said.

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