Tasmania's Health Department will appoint a senior doctor to conduct audits of patient death records across the health system from before 2019. It follows a report in June which found 29 deaths were never referred to the coroner when they should have been.
The Tas manian Health Department says it will appoint a senior doctor to conduct audits of patient death records across the health system prior to 2019.
The review was triggered by allegations raised in parliament by nurses Amanda Duncan and Tom Millen that former clinical services director Peter Renshaw had falsified death certificates.Ms Duncan has alleged staff continue to have ongoing concerns that some current senior management at the hospital continue to falsify death certificates.
Mr Webster said a senior doctor would be appointed to conduct spot audits of death certificates from before 2019 across the Tasmanian Health Service . "They will go back prior to 2019 to check our processes, as well as making sure they check some of the forward cases to make sure we are continuing to do what we committed to do."Dale Webster says the government and the Health Department share the concern "that there is this ongoing disquiet that we haven't got this right".
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