Advanced care paramedic Zac David Leigh banned from patient contact after serious assault charge
A Queensland Ambulance Service advanced care paramedic has been banned from patient contact after being charged with serious assault.
A Gold Coast advanced care paramedic at the Queensland Ambulance Service accused of a Christmas Day serious assault has been banned from having patient contact.
Zac David Leigh, from Eagleby, was the target of immediate registration action by the state’s health watchdog effective from November 24, an announcement states.
He was banned from patient contact or supervising patient contact by the state’s healthcare regulator The Office of the Health Ombudsman, after he was charged with assaults occasioning bodily harm (domestic violence) over an alleged incident in Miami on Christmas Day, 2024.
The charge is before Southport Magistrates Court.
He has worked for the Queensland Ambulance Service for 13 years, according to his LinkedIn profile.
He graduated with a master’s degree in critical care paramedicine from Edith Cowan University in 2022, and has a bachelor degree in nursing from Griffith University.
He also has a degree in health science from Queensland University of Technology.
The health ombudsman states that Leigh “does not currently have … approval to practise in any employment or practice location”.
“The practitioner must not practise in any role requiring patient contact (including supervision of other practitioners engaged in patient contact),” the announcement states.
“The practitioner may only use their professional knowledge to practise in management, administration, education, research, advisory, regulatory or policy development roles that do not require patient contact,” it states.
The immediate registration action is a temporary measure taken by the regulator and it can only be removed by the health ombudsman or by application to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Originally published as Advanced care paramedic Zac David Leigh banned from patient contact after serious assault charge
