Page 1642 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 1 May 2012
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(c) on 30 November 2011, the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare released a report, Australian Hospital Statistics 2010-11, emergency department and elective surgery waiting times, showing that the ACT had recorded some of the worst emergency department results in Australia and the worst results in the ACT’s history;
(d) on 30 November 2011, Ms Gallagher issued an early report card on emergency department waiting times with different data, stating that:
(i) “… the figures contained in this report have been superseded by the more recent figures released today as part of the Report Card”;
(ii) “... we are now adding an Emergency Department Report Card to provide even more information to the public”; and
(iii) “I’m pleased to see the Report Card for August 2011 showing solid improvements in performance by the Canberra Hospital”;
(e) after identifying a discrepancy in data presented on Katy Gallagher’s Emergency Department Report Cards for August and December 2011, I submitted question on notice (QON) 2178 which appeared on the Notice Paper on 27 March 2012;
(f) the Health Director-General became aware of an anomaly in emergency department data on 5 April 2012, one week after the QON 2178 appeared on the Notice Paper;
(g) on 24 April 2012, the Health Director-General made a statement that a very senior hospital administrator had been stood down after admitting they had falsified emergency department data at The Canberra Hospital;
(h) the report cards, health quarterly reports and annual report presented by Katy Gallagher since the manipulation of the data commenced, are now discredited and must be withdrawn;
(i) Katy Gallagher has misled both the Assembly and the public on numerous occasions by presenting falsified information about emergency department results;
(j) on 18 April 2012, prior to the announcement that a senior hospital administrator had been stood down for falsifying emergency department results, I was advised by anonymous email that stated emergency department results for category four patients at Calvary Public Hospital were being manipulated to make them look better;
(k) as emergency department results are linked to Commonwealth reward payments, any false data provided to the Commonwealth may have resulted in overpayments that could have defrauded the Commonwealth;
(l) in a briefing with the Health Director-General and the Minister’s staff on 26 April 2012, I asked if there was any personal relationship between Katy Gallagher and the senior hospital administrator who had been stood down and I was not provided with an answer;
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