Eight employees of SA Health were forced to resign after accessing the medical records of the police commissioner's deceased son. An audit uncovered privacy breaches involving up to 19 staff members, leading to investigations and sanctions for multiple individuals.
SA Health has forced eight staff to quit their jobs for accessing the medical records of the police commissioner's son, Charlie Stevens, who was killed in a car crash last year. It's also been revealed another staff member is now being investigated, while almost a dozen others have been sanctioned.
The electronic privacy breaches came to light during an audit conducted in July, which uncovered the involvement of up to 19 staff members across various positions, including administrative personnel, nurses, and doctors.After months of investigation, 10 individuals were found to have engaged in misconduct related to the file and were issued warnings and sanctions. However, another eight who directly accessed clinical information were deemed to have committed a more serious offence and have now lost their jobs. The group of employees was told to resign as opposed to being sacked. Picton said all were given their entitlements. 'The thing about electronic patient records is that you can track what's happened and when things were accessed and so this is a message to everybody in SA Health to make sure that they do follow the rules,' Picton said.
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