SA Health’s high-profile departures before and after March 2018 election

Scores of people have left SA Health over the past eight years. Here’s a list of the high-profile departures.

Scores of people have left SA Health for various reasons over the past eight years. Here are some of the highest profile cases.

Departures after 2018 election

SUE O’Neill, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network chief executive to return to academia;

REBECCA Badcock, Central Adelaide Local Health Network executive director of nursing to join the private sector;

JOHN Mendoza, mental health boss, resigned in frustration;

VICKIE Kaminski, SA Health chief executive, replaced by Dr Chris McGowan following the change of government;

JASON Killens, head of the SA Ambulance Service, to take up a senior job in Wales;

STEVE Morris, SA Health Chief Pharmacist, to become chief executive at NPS MedicineWise;

JACKIE Hanson, head of the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (quit amid Oakden scandal prior to election, finished work after the election).

Nurse Rebecca Badcock left the public system earlier this year. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe

Adjunct Professor John Mendoza resigned in frustration. Picture: Tom Huntley

Departures before 2018 election

JULIA Squire, CALHN chief executive sacked 16 months into a five-year contract amid claims of failure to collaborate over the new RAH project;

DAVID Swan, SA Health chief executive, quit to take a job in the private sector;

JENNY Richter, SA Health deputy chief executive, resigned and replaced by Vickie Kaminski, who went on to replace David Swan as chief executive;

JUDITH Carr, resigned as project director of the new Royal Adelaide Hospital project;

ANDREW Neilsen, resigned as RAH program director;

STEVE Moro, resigned as Director of Procurement for the new RAH;

KEN Barr, sacked as SA Pathology boss in 2016 over the prostate cancer test misdiagnosis scandal, has since claimed he was a scapegoat;

PROFESSOR Peter Bardy, resigned as RAH head of cancer in 2016 amid chemotherapy bungle scandal;

DR Dewald Behrens, resigned as clinical director of Modbury Hospital’s ED in 2016 in frustration over Transforming Health reforms to downgrade the hospital but continued to work at Modbury as a clinician;

DR David Panter, resigned as CALHN chief executive in 2015 to work in the private sector, was a pivotal figure in the new RAH project;

ROBERT Morton, quit suddenly in 2015 after 18 months as SA Ambulance Service chief executive after being headhunted from Ireland.

* The Advertiser makes no suggestion that these departures were linked to an alleged culture of bullying flagged by eminent cardiologist Professor John Horowitz