The Latest Breaking News from Peter Renshaw

Tasmania's health department is reviewing deaths at a hospital after a parliamentary inquiry heard allegations against a former top doctor.

An inquiry has been told a former senior executive at a Tasmanian hospital falsified death certificates and didn't report matters for investigation as required.

Tasmania's commission of inquiry into child abuse sums up systemic failures and thanks victim-survivors after eight weeks of harrowing evidence at public hearings.

Peter Renshaw says he is "not aware of any marked changes" at the hospital after it became aware of the extent of paedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin's offending, a commission of inquiry hears.

An inquiry has been told processes at a Tasmanian hospital where a pedophile nurse worked have not markedly changed since his offending came to light.

The head of medical services at the Launceston General Hospital is accused of showing "an astonishing lack of insight into the pain" he was causing when he said he did not believe the alleged rape of an 11-year-old patient occurred.

A human resources manager at Tasmania's Launceston General Hospital has denied deliberately covering up an allegation of child sexual abuse against a nurse.

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".