An independent external investigation needs to be set up by the NSW Government to reveal the extent of the activities of a fake doctor who worked in Wyong Hospital for several years, according to NSW Shadow Health Minister, Mr Walt Secord.
Mr Secord said NSW Health Minister, Mr Brad Hazzard, owed it to former patients at Wyong Hospital to get to the bottom of the fake doctor’s activity.
The fake doctor worked at Wyong Hospital from October 2004 until January 2005, and at Gosford hospital from February 2003 until June 2004, and then again, from January 2005 until April 2006.
In addition, he worked at both Gosford and Wyong Hospitals from June 2004 until October 2004.
Mr Secord said the fake doctor worked under 12 separate State and Federal governments; however, the current State government had a responsibility to get to the bottom of this matter.
Mr Secord said he offered his in-principle bipartisan support to any measures the State government was considering to tighten this area of health law.
“The Central Coast community has a right to know if his activity led to deaths,” Mr Secord said.
“It is perplexing as to why Mr Hazzard would not reveal whether the fake doctor performed procedures, or his activities as a doctor.
“NSW Health and hospitals in NSW just lurch from crisis to crisis.”
Media release,
Mar 10, 2017
Walt Secord, NSW Shadow Minister for Health