Integrity Trade-off
- Report length
- 12 pages
Summary
The report's own summary: Commissioner’s foreword, pages 2 to 3
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The South Australian Independent Commission Against Corruption revisited governance risks in SA Health following its earlier Troubling Ambiguity report.
It examined clinicians’ working hours, attendance records and the arrangements allowing private practice alongside public duties.
The Commissioner concluded that unresolved ambiguity continued to obstruct investigations and accountability.
The Commission made three recommendations on accurate timesheets, monitoring private practice and a strategy to reform relevant industrial arrangements.
In the body's own words
- Conclusion
The vulnerabilities which exist in relation to clinicians’ attendance and rights of private practice have not been adequately addressed, despite a new industrial agreement commencing in February 2022.
- Conclusion
Opportunities to hold individuals to account continues to be undermined by the existing scheme.
Findings and recommendations
Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.
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Published responses
No published response was found.
Coverage
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- Since October 2021 the Commission does not make findings of corrupt conduct; most records have no findings.
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- Findings are extracted only from investigation reports that state them in the Commissioner's own words (Oakden 2018, Gillman 2015); public statements are not read for findings.