Australian National Audit Office finds department of health’s administration of community health program ‘fell short of ethical requirements’
“The Department of Health and Aged Care’s administration of the Community Health and Hospitals Program was ineffective and fell short of ethical requirements,” the ANAO said., has savaged his predecessors for announcing projects “without assessment or guidance” and ordered his department to “run the ruler” over remaining projects funded in the program.
“Health’s administration of CHHP grants was not appropriate, involving deliberate breaches of the relevant legal requirements and the principles underpinning them,” the ANAO said. Of 63 national partnership agreement projects, the ANAO found 29 were identified in the EOI process and 34 outside it. Of the 29, just two were found to be “highly suitable” by the health department, and 20 “suitable”; the ANAO noted the health department had proposed only “highly suitable” projects should even be short-listed.
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