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OPINION
day worked, one must continue to cross check three or more
pay slips and not uncommonly, five to 10 entries just to
ascertain exactly what has been paid and at what level. The
amount of time and effort involved in canvassing through
this paper barrage continues to grow and the mistakes
continue to add up.
So one must once again ask, why is this happening all
the time and importantly, why are we continuing to put
up with this? The systematic nature of these errors is
more than just concerning. Without any doubt, HCN is,
on a statewide basis, failing to provide an effective payroll
solution for the WA health service.
This should also cause us to ask further questions of the
Department of Health and HCN. With new hospitals being
built and the number of medical, nursing and allied health
professionals required to work in the public health system
further growing, concerns must arise with HCN’s ability
to run those projects when far less complex projects such as
payroll are not able to be performed properly.
All junior doctors want from the payroll side of HCN
is to be paid for what we work and deserve, not
one dollar more. No one likes a doctor who complains
about pay, but how much longer do we have to put up
with this? The question of how HCN continues to allow
the continuous and systematic debacle of doctors’ pay
was asked at the very beginning of this year and so far,
HCN and the people that are in charge of this have done
nothing to fix this broken system. Every fortnight, as the
pay slips arrive, the same problems continue. If the payroll
side of HCN was a doctor, they would
have, a long time ago, been
hauled in front of the medical
board and had their license
to practice revoked.
So far, apart from
calling for a review,
Every fortnight, as
which like many
other reviews has
the pay slips arrive,
implemented no
the same problems
change, HCN
just continues to
continue
fail medical staff.
The government was
not brave enough to
implement changes to HCN
when doctors asked politely.
So now the medical community
must demand the resignation of the people in charge of the
payroll debacles occurring within HCN.
I am reminded that US President Harry Truman had the
sign on his desk: “The Buck Stops Here.” Minister Kim
Hames, over to you. ■
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