The Liberals’ Jeremy Hanson is doing a fine job of putting the frighteners up us this morning on standards compliance at the Canberra Hospital:
ACT Shadow Health Minister Jeremy Hanson said today that an internal audit of the Canberra Hospital’s compliance with the Surgical Safety Checklist has identified appalling levels of non-compliance that has put approximately 50 per cent of surgical patients at ‘significant risk.’
“Following audits that found only 52 percent of surgical safety checklists were completed, the Executive Director of the Quality and Safety Unit at the Hospital warned that ‘this is a significant risk for surgical patients and the organisation,’” Mr Hanson said today.
Better get someone onto “fixing” those numbers eh?