The New South Wales government’s inquiry into the hospital system is designed to fail, opposition leader Barry O’Farrell told ABC News today.
Mr O’Farrell claims the inquiry’s four-month deadline is too short, especially as inquiry head Peter Garling SC plans to visit an emergency department and see a doctor.
Mr O’Farrell has demanded that the hospital inquiry’s waiting list blow out by several months.
The opposition leader accused Premier Morris Iemma of trying to silence Mr Garling once and for all, by sending him to 115 public hospital emergency departments.
Mr O’Farrell told The Daily Grind he sees a sinister motive in Mr Iemma’s pledge to maximize the special commissioner’s exposure to junior clinicians, administrators and others likely to reduce his lifespan.
Mr Garling is currently in an induced coma in an Intensive Care Clinical Quality Assurance and Safety Audit Reporting Procedures: Better Patient Journeys Through Dobbing Yourself In briefing.