Help with legal fees for AHPRA fight
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Until April 2018, I was a manager in the notifications (complaints) team at the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
Over 2017/2018 in particular, I raised many concerns with senior management. These included:
- concerns about the welfare of practitioners who were the subject of notifications
- concerns about staff welfare due to extreme workloads and a lack of support for their difficult and stressful roles
AHPRA does not know how to manage the large number of complaints being made, so AHPRA has adopted knee-jerk, panicked responses to key issues.
Practitioners are being subjected to investigations for trivial (or non-existent) issues. Practitioner welfare is not considered in any meaningful way. Practitioners have to practise more defensively which in turn negatively affects patient outcomes.
However, the public isn't being protected either. Investigations are time-consuming and the 1% of practitioners doing the wrong thing are not effectively managed.
The good staff are leaving. The survivors who have been around for years keep their roles without accountability despite so many tragic outcomes.
The result is a terrible, slow experience for practitioners, a lack of safety for the public, and a horribly stressful workplace for the good staff who try hard to do a great job.
As a result of me raising these concerns, AHPRA forced me to resign, despite never raising any concerns about my work at all. I have now taken legal action in the Federal Circuit Court of Australia against AHPRA.
I stood up for my staff and for practitioners, and AHPRA punished me for it.
AHPRA is overrun by bullies, and individuals who care only for their own advancement and career development. Good staff walk out the door every day.
AHPRA needs to change, but it will only change if it is forced to change. Through this action, I hope to force AHPRA to acknowledge at least some of its shortcomings.
These legal proceedings will cost me at least $50,000. Any dollar you can contribute would be of great assistance. Please let me know if you have any questions - happy to clarify the above!
Over 2017/2018 in particular, I raised many concerns with senior management. These included:
- concerns about the welfare of practitioners who were the subject of notifications
- concerns about staff welfare due to extreme workloads and a lack of support for their difficult and stressful roles
AHPRA does not know how to manage the large number of complaints being made, so AHPRA has adopted knee-jerk, panicked responses to key issues.
Practitioners are being subjected to investigations for trivial (or non-existent) issues. Practitioner welfare is not considered in any meaningful way. Practitioners have to practise more defensively which in turn negatively affects patient outcomes.
However, the public isn't being protected either. Investigations are time-consuming and the 1% of practitioners doing the wrong thing are not effectively managed.
The good staff are leaving. The survivors who have been around for years keep their roles without accountability despite so many tragic outcomes.
The result is a terrible, slow experience for practitioners, a lack of safety for the public, and a horribly stressful workplace for the good staff who try hard to do a great job.
As a result of me raising these concerns, AHPRA forced me to resign, despite never raising any concerns about my work at all. I have now taken legal action in the Federal Circuit Court of Australia against AHPRA.
I stood up for my staff and for practitioners, and AHPRA punished me for it.
AHPRA is overrun by bullies, and individuals who care only for their own advancement and career development. Good staff walk out the door every day.
AHPRA needs to change, but it will only change if it is forced to change. Through this action, I hope to force AHPRA to acknowledge at least some of its shortcomings.
These legal proceedings will cost me at least $50,000. Any dollar you can contribute would be of great assistance. Please let me know if you have any questions - happy to clarify the above!
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David Gardner
Organizer
Adelaide, SA