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David William Field
Last updated: 2026-10-18T09:32:19.487Z
- Practitioner name
- David William Field
- Name as recorded
- David William Field
- Profession
- Registered nurse (clinical nurse, Maryborough Hospital)
- Decision date
- 2019-09-02
- Offence category
- Assault / threatening violence (domestic); weapons
- Offence
- On 10 February 2016, after heavy drinking, he argued with his wife, held a replica handgun to her head to scare her, then fired a home-made sawn-off .22 rifle at the front gate. The prosecutor alleged he also put the home-made gun to her head and pulled the trigger. Police found the rifle and about 70 rounds hidden in the house. He did not tell the Board about the charges, his suspension or his sacking. Pleaded guilty in Maryborough Magistrates Court (8 March 2016) to threatening violence (domestic violence offence), dangerous conduct with a weapon, unlawful possession of weapons and possessing prohibited explosives. Twelve months' probation; no convictions recorded.
- Outcome
- Registration cancelled and disqualified from reapplying for only one year (he had already been suspended since 2016). No costs order. QCAT (Judge Sheridan with assessors N Alexander, M Halliday and S Lewis). The Health Ombudsman first sought only a 1-2 year suspension, then cancellation with 1-2 years' disqualification; the tribunal chose the minimum one year.
- Outcome type
- Cancelled; disqualified (not permanent)
- Outcome length
- 1 year
- Category
- Not recorded
- Tribunal
- Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Case name
- Health Ombudsman v Field [2019] QCAT 243
- Citation
- [2019] QCAT 243
- Tribunal decision date
- 2019-09-02
- State
- QLD
- Tribunal city
- Not recorded
- National board
- Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (referral by the Health Ombudsman)
- Registration status
- Not recorded
- Official outcome (tribunal/board)
- Cancelled; disqualified (not permanent) 1 year
- Source confidence
- Not recorded
- Notes
- Permanently barred: No Source: CaseChat AU, 2019-09-02
Decision-makers
- Judge Sheridan · · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- N Alexander · · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- M Halliday · · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- S Lewis · · Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal