Adelaide hospital workers are underneath investigation after allegedly accessing the medical information of Police Commissioner Grant Stevens’ son, who died after being hit by a automobile.
Charlie Stevens, 18, died in hospital from an irreversible mind damage after he was struck by a automobile at Goolwa in November.
SA Well being turned conscious of a breach in his information just a few months in the past after an audit of the pc techniques set off alarm bells.
The well being authority is now investigating 18 workers members who might have inappropriately accessed his information and has already suspended 10 of them pending an final result.
“Our honest apologies are to the household and we apologise for the misery it is induced,” SA Well being deputy chief Judith Formston mentioned.
In keeping with police, SA Well being has stored the Stevens household conscious of the investigation.
The household has refused to touch upon the matter.
Information of the investigation has sparked widespread criticism.
“I could not consider it after I heard about this,” Premier Peter Malinauskas.
“Simply since you work within the well being system does not provide you with a proper to go searching into different folks’s enterprise.”
“Any such behaviour is completely abhorrent and is being handled on the highest degree of seriousness,” Well being Minister Chris Picton mentioned.
Any workers member discovered to have inappropriately accessed the medical information can face termination because of a coverage launched by SA Well being in 2015.
It was applied after 13 workers have been caught trying via the medical information of Cy Walsh after he was arrested for killing his father and Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh.
