Tasmania Health Department Tries to Stop Investigation into Hospital Deaths

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Many deaths at a hospital in Launceston were looked into.

In short, there were problems at the hospital.

The health department in Tasmania thinks a coroner investigation should not happen.

A review found 29 deaths were signed off by a doctor who was not allowed to do so.

Even though these deaths were sent to the coroner, the department says the coroner cannot investigate.

The health department wants a court case about a possibly fake medical certificate to be stopped.

The department's lawyer said the coroner does not have the power to look into this case.

Hospital staff and families were worried about death certificates.

A woman named Margaret Joyce Binns died after a fall in 2020.

A review looked into claims that some death certificates were falsified by a doctor.

The review found that one staff member did things he was not supposed to do.

The doctor says he did nothing wrong.

The doctor's medical license was suspended in 2024.

The review said the cases were sent to the coroner to be transparent.

A lawyer for the health department said looking into the doctor's actions would be pointless.

She said one death was first thought not to need a coroner's investigation.

The lawyer said once that decision was made, the coroner could not look into it again.

She also said medical certificates were not the coroner's business.

The coroner questioned why he could not comment on a medical certificate.

The coroner said a medical certificate is important.

The coroner asked if he could comment on a certificate in a relevant case.

The lawyer also questioned if one death was a reportable death.

The hearing was stopped without a new date set.

The coroner said an investigation was unlikely.

The health department secretary said there were questions about if a death was reportable.

The secretary said the department would work with authorities.

The hearing happened years after the investigation started.

The doctor who was in charge of the hospital did not attend the hearing.

His lawyer said the doctor's actions had already been looked into.

The doctor's medical license was suspended.

The police said there was not enough evidence to charge the doctor.

Claims about the doctor falsifying death certificates were first made in 2024.

A health administrator looked into 86 deaths at the hospital.

Twenty-nine deaths were sent to the coroner.

A notice on the coroner's website said the doctor's ability to issue death certificates was important.

The health department sent the report to the police, but they will not investigate.

The doctor's time at the hospital was also looked into by a commission.

The commission found the doctor had done wrong.

The commission said the doctor did not report cases of child abuse as he should have.

The doctor also misled people about a nurse who was a pedophile.

People need to trust medical institutions.

A politician said it was alarming that the health department was fighting the investigation.

The politician said the government was pushing back on the investigation.

The health department said sorry to those affected.

The premier said he wanted the allegations to be looked into thoroughly.

He wanted to make sure the health system was trustworthy.

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