Page 1643 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 1 May 2012
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(m) on 27 April 2012, Katy Gallagher admitted the senior hospital administrator who has been stood down had a close personal relationship with a Gallagher family member and that Katy Gallagher failed to advise the public about this relationship for over a week;
(n) at the briefing with the Health Director-General on 26 April, the Health Director-General stated that the senior hospital administrator who had been stood down had failed to provide a reason why they had deliberately falsified emergency department data to make the results look better;
(o) at the briefing with the Health Director-General on 26 April, the Director General stated that the senior hospital administrator who had been stood down for falsifying emergency department results to make them look better had access to other hospital results and it was unclear if these had been falsified;
(p) the ACT Government has commissioned an internal audit to examine the discrepancies in the emergency department data at the Canberra Hospital;
(q) Katy Gallagher advised the media on 27 April 2012, that she had asked the Auditor-General to look in to a “performance audit on broader data management issues in the Health Directorate”;
(r) the ACT Auditor-General is still considering whether she will conduct a performance audit, and if so the nature of that audit;
(s) there are a number of issues that may be beyond the scope of the audits requested by Katy Gallagher including:
(i) the apparent political advantage gained by Katy Gallagher by presenting false emergency department results;
(ii) the potential that political interference and/or influence has occurred;
(iii) an explanation as to why the results were falsified;
(iv) the relationship between Katy Gallagher’s family member and the senior hospital administrator who has been stood down;
(v) the failure of Katy Gallagher to immediately advise the community of that family link; and
(vi) the potential for the Commonwealth to have been defrauded; and
(t) in the interest of open and accountable government, a fully independent inquiry with appropriate powers to investigate all matters raised as result of the falsification of emergency results is required to restore the breach of trust between the Minister, and the public;
(2) calls on the ACT Government to:
(a) appoint a board of inquiry pursuant to the Inquiries Act 1991 into the falsifying of emergency department results at The Canberra Hospital;
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