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Report on serious misconduct risks around dangerous drugs in hospital

Report · Corruption and Crime Commission (WA CCC) · Western Australia · Dated

Report length
54 pages

Official source

Report on serious misconduct risks around dangerous drugs in hospital

PDF · 54 pages · 1.2 MB · ccc.wa.gov.au

Summary

The report's own summary: Summary, pages 52 to 53

Generated summary: written by an AI model from the report text and checked against the cited pages.

  • The Corruption and Crime Commission examined theft and misuse risks involving dangerous pharmaceutical drugs in WA Health facilities.

    Report, page 6

  • It analysed notifications about missing or otherwise unaccounted-for restricted drugs at three metropolitan hospitals from 2013 to 2017.

    Report, page 6 · Report, page 52

  • The Commission concluded that most reported discrepancies remained unexplained after investigation.

    Report, page 52

  • It considered poor records and failures to follow security and handling policies to be contributing factors.

    Report, page 52

  • Its nine recommendations covered consistent policies, accountability, records, security, prompt reporting, skilled investigations, staff training and detection strategies.

    Report, page 53 · Report, page 54

In the body's own words

  1. Conclusion

    WA Health is unable to account to the Commission or the community for the majority of drug discrepancies.

    Report, page 52

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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