The Latest Breaking News from Launceston General Hospital

A victim-survivor who was abused by notorious paedophile James Griffin tells the commission of inquiry that when she finally built up the courage to go to police, they told her they "couldn't charge a dead person".

A veteran of child protection says she can "barely" find the words to say how sorry she is for the treatment of two sexual abuse survivors who weren't believed by authorities when they went for help. Sadly, one of those survivors will never hear the apology.

A survivor has told an inquiry into child sexual abuse in Tasmania's public service she was left without support or an apology after making her disclosure.

An inquiry has been told about red flags relating to a male nurse in Tasmania who was later charged with child sexual abuse offences.

There will be "significant changes to leadership roles" at a Tasmanian hospital following a week of harrowing victim accounts at a child sexual abuse inquiry, the government announces.

A former chief executive of a hospital in Tasmania says he didn't make any inquiries after learning a pedophile nurse had worked under his leadership.

A senior executive at the Launceston General Hospital has told a child abuse inquiry that she got most of her information about an investigation into paedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin from two podcasts.

The hospital supervisor of a notorious paedophile who worked in a children's ward has tearfully told an inquiry she was aware of him hugging young patients — but that it was "accepted by all staff" and in her opinion at the time something which could be addressed by "education".

In 2011, Kylee Pearn told the Launceston General Hospital that there was a child abuser working in the children's ward — she knew because he'd abused her years earlier. The paedophile, James Geoffrey Griffin, would continue working there for another eight years.

A witness tells a child abuse inquiry the Launceston General Hospital did not tell him the outcome of the investigation into his complaint, while a former chief executive apologises to the family of a young girl who alleged she was raped by a doctor.

A person who bought a laptop from now-notorious paedophile James Geoffrey Griffin decades ago alerted police of links to child exploitation websites and followed up after not hearing back, but nothing was done.