‘We don’t want politics. We want the political leadership to support solutions,’ doctor says, citing escalating violence against health workers
n May 2017, Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann, a dedicated heart and lung surgeon was punched outside his Melbourne hospital after asking his attacker to stop smoking in a non-smoking area. Four weeks later,It was a shocking case, coming amid rising numbers of violent acts committed against Victorian health workers at the time.
The auditor general report, as well as a subsequent taskforce made up of health workers and their union representatives, called on the government to update its occupational violence training for frontline workers.Workers Union , Diana Asmar, on 23 October 2018 the premier, Daniel Andrews, announced a $2.2m election commitment towards targeted and tailored training for 1,000 frontline workers to recognise and respond to occupational violence.
This contract, along with the government’s 23 October announcement, was at the centre of an Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission investigation, dubbed Operation Daintree,‘It’s a dangerous place to work,’ says Stephen Parnis, emergency physician based in three Melbourne emergency departments.The investigation found the public interest was not met in awarding HEF the contract, with the union “given privileged access and favourable treatment” to the government.
“What they had here was a situation where people in cabinet wanted to give the union a large infusion of funds and the good justification for it would be if they gave them a very large contract under which they had to train health workers,” he says.
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