CORRUPTION AND CRIME
COMMISSION — NORTH METROPOLITAN HEALTH SERVICE —PROCUREMENT
PRACTICES
725. Hon TJORN SIBMA to the parliamentary secretary
representing the Minister for Health:
Reference to a WA Health internal
investigation is made within the Corruption and Crime Commission's ''Report into bribery and corruption in
maintenance and service contracts within North Metropolitan Health Service''.
(1) Who within WA
Health undertook the internal investigation into the procurement practices of
the NMHS facilities management directorate; and to which executives within NMHS
did they provide this report, and when?
(2) When was Dr Russell-Weisz
provided this report, and how was it provided to him?
(3) Will the minister seek to make
that report public; and, if not, why not?
Hon ALANNA
CLOHESY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
(1) The
Department of Health office of the chief procurement officer completed the ''North
Metropolitan Health Service: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Facilities
Management Procurement Review'' in May 2015. The final copy of this
report was provided to Dr Shane Kelly, the then chief executive, North Metropolitan Health Service, on 25 May 2015
by the acting director general, Professor Bryant Stokes.
(2) A review of
events and circumstances is currently underway and will be provided to the
member on completion.
(3) Legal advice
will be sought from the State Solicitor's Office as to whether this in-confidence
document may be tabled. The member will be informed of this advice in due
course.