KordaMentha auditors temporarily filling vacant business manager roles at Royal Adelaide Hospital
KordaMentha auditors are temporarily filling vacant business manager roles at the Royal Adelaide Hospital to get an idea of what is required to do the jobs, Health Minister Stephen Wade, below, says.
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KordaMentha auditors are temporarily filling vacant business manager roles at the Royal Adelaide Hospital to get an idea of what is required to do the jobs, Health Minister Stephen Wade says.
The appointments have drawn the ire of the Opposition, which says the managerial positions in the RAH’s critical care and surgical areas should be filled by public servants, but the Government says it is part of a wider deal with the auditor.
The Government has paid KordaMentha $1.98 million to examine and fix chronic overspending in the Central Adelaide Local Health Network.
Mr Wade said his understanding was that no taxpayer funds were paid to KordaMentha specifically to fill the roles.
Labor health spokesman Chris Picton said the appointment of the two “interstate private liquidators” to the managerial roles would make patients “very concerned”.
“There are serious questions about how it was that the Liberals have put these liquidators into manager positions in hospitals without breaching public service laws and guidelines,” he said.
“The areas that these liquidators have been made managers are … areas where our public hospitals should have health experts appointed through a proper selection process, not liquidators only concerned about the bottom line and not patient care.”