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Barwon Health criticised over grievances

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Complaints by two employees have led to calls for changes to Barwon Health’s grievance policy.

As reported by the Geelong Advertiser (19/10/13), the Public Service Standards Commissioner has written to Barwon Health to urge improvements to the policy.

Following two separate complaints by a senior Barwon Health nurse and a former anaesthetist, Dr Colson, the Commissioner has called for the policy to include timelines to ensure complaints are dealt with more quickly.

“Whilst some delay may be expected, a delay of two months in responding to a grievance is not acceptable,” the Commissioner writes.

In a letter to state Health Minister David Davis, Associate Professor Eugene Athan, Barwon Health’s Medical Staff Group chairman expresses “serious concern”, according to the Advertiser.

“[T]he executive had ‘repeatedly and unilaterally’ acted against advice from the senior medical staff and its representative group in relation to the handling of the Dr Colson affair.”

>> Please contact VHPA Member Assist for advice on grievances or other issues – ph 1300 322 917
  • 23 October 2013

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