No X-ray vision required: Bungling hospital management and the 50,000-scan backlog
As a mountain of unreported scans grew, radiologists were told their 'reporting outputs were below expectations': ombudsman's report.
The details of another unwanted case study in bungling hospital management was exposed to view this week.
At its centre was the backlog of some 50,000 unreported imaging scans which had been accumulating over four years at Concord Hospital in Sydney.
Its features are familiar enough — a hospital culture gone bad breeding mutual distrust, where the senior management’s response to concerns around workload and patient safety raised by clinical staff substandard, unreasonable and wrong.
That at least was the conclusion of an NSW Ombudsman report leaked to 6minutes and other media this week.
