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| Subject: Retarded OZschwitz Health Care Complaints Commission in Crisis Thu Jun 19, 2014 10:43 pm | |
| The agency responsible for investigating healthcare complaints and weeding out rogue doctors is in crisis with new statistics exposing a dramatic decline in investigations despite complaints from the public being at an all-time high.
In 2011 the Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) acknowledged it was so cash-strapped it was having to cut both the number – and quality – of its investigations.
In his annual report, the Commissioner, Kieran Pehm, spoke of a ‘‘very challenging year" involving rising complaints that were not being matched with corresponding increases in funding or staff, causing the HCCC to regularly reject public concerns – without even as much as a call to clarify the problem.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/health-care-complaints-commission-in-crisis-20140619-zsem0.html |
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