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SA Health staff inappropriately access medical records of Charlie Stevens
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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12/20/2024
An investigation has found 19 health workers ‘inappropriately’ accessed the medical records of a patient that ABC news understands to be the South Australian Police Commissioner’s son. Another employee is still under investigation
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Well, this investigation came about following the death of Charlie Stevens. He was the 18-year-old
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son of Police Commissioner Grant Stevens, and he suffered an irreversible brain damage
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following a hit-and-run crash on South Australia's south coast during schoolies celebrations
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last November. He later died at the Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide's south. Now, back
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in July, the ABC News exclusively reported that SA Health was investigating 18 staff
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over allegations they had inappropriately accessed his medical records. Of those, 10
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had been suspended. But investigations have taken months, and today SA Health released
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a statement to say that eight staff members had been found to have inappropriately accessed
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his medical records. They had resigned, but had they not resigned earlier, SA Health would
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have terminated their employment anyway. The statement said that a further 10 staff
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members were found to have engaged in misconduct, that also inappropriately accessed the records,
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and a number of sanctions had been issued to them, whether that be through formal reprimands
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or warnings, and they said that those reprimands or sanctions would be put on their employee
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records. Interestingly, SA Health said that a further one employee was still under investigation
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for inappropriately accessing the records, but that investigation is still ongoing. Now,
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the South Australian Health Minister is speaking to reporters currently and has been questioned
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about this matter. He said his health department was taking the issue extremely seriously.
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He said that the 18 staff members who were found to have inappropriately accessed the
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medical records came from a range of roles within SA Health. He was unable to say whether
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any of them held leadership positions within the department, and he said that that 19th
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staff member who is still under investigation, he was unsure when those investigations would
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wrap up. The ABC did ask the health minister yesterday for an update on this investigation.
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He didn't provide it. However, today he said that those investigations were only finalised
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on Thursday, and that after inquiries, they were able to release a statement confirming
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the outcomes of the investigations. The South Australian Premier, he's previously described
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this as appalling allegations at the time of people inappropriately accessing the medical
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records. The government says that they take this issue very seriously. They conduct regular
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audits of which staff members are looking at patients' medical records, and because
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it's an electronic system, they are able to tell quite easily if someone has accessed
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records that perhaps they shouldn't have.
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