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The chief executive of SA Health has declared “a line in the sand” for the state’s largest government department as it confronts Independent Commission Against Corruption concerns, telling staff it will adopt a “truly open and accountable culture – and anything less is unacceptable”.
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The Marshall Government says an inter-agency taskforce to address possible corruption and misconduct within SA Health will “operate at arms length” from the department, despite the fact that the SA Health CEO and another top executive are members of its five-person leadership team.
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The number of reports to ICAC about SA Health employees has grown every year since the anti-corruption watchdog was set up, with a dramatic increase in reports coming from whistleblowers within the department itself.
Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Bruce Lander says Premier Steven Marshall spoke to him angrily during a closed-doors meeting last week, in which he alleges the Premier contradicted his own public statements about the ICAC report into SA Health.
The South Australian doctors’ union says its members’ reputations have been called into question by an ICAC report into SA Health, and that clinicians are best placed to tackle the issues raised despite being identified as a focus of anti-corruption investigations into the department.
Premier Steven Marshall has declared there is no need for an independent probe into SA Health, while defending his Government’s handling of a scathing report into suspected corruption within the department.
