Case Study of Bundaberg Hospital Assignment

Case Study of Bundaberg Hospital

Introduction
The article focuses on aspects related to quality of health care system and safety
related investigations in Australia. One of the incidents that occurred in 2005 at
Bundaberg hospital in Queensland, Australia is exploited and highlight the reasons
for failure of Australian health care system. Clinical governance and quality and
safety issues were discussed with regard to failure of health system that lead to
numerous surgical errors and patient deaths.
Clinical Governance
One of the reasons for failure of health care system in Bundaberg hospital is clinical
governance. The reasons for failure of clinical governance was inquired and
investigated and reasons were due to irresponsibility and negligence of the hospital
administration and also decisions and clinical practices conducted by Dr.Jayant
Patel.
The members of Bundaberg hospital administration and medical board of
Queensland lacked responsibility and showed negligence while recruiting Dr. Jayant
Patel as Senior medical officer in surgery in the year 2003.The department of
administration failed to check the credentials related to Dr. Patel. In addition to this,
administration failed to assess the criteria of selection for the post and were unable
to perform proper assessment before allocating the post to Dr.Patel. This clearly
indicates there is a lack of leadership qualities and cultural differences with regard to
decisions made by Dr.Jayant Patel.
Dr.Patel was associated with several clinical related failures including death of
patients and this is mainly due to negligence and poor clinical practice. Previously in
1984 Dr.Patel was cited for not examining the condition of patient properly before
doing surgery and for this reason surgical related practices were restricted. Dr.Patel
was accused due to manipulating reports relevant to operation theatre and also
neglected, harassed and abused patients (Austin et.al,2015). Due to lack of
standard clinical practices it is not easy to get a post like Head of specific department
but Dr.Patel with all failures still got appointed as Head of surgery at Bundaberg.
This clearly shows decisions took by management lack leadership qualities and
shows negligence. Toni Hoffman, nurse at Bundaberg hospital highlighted the failure