Report recommends Qld doctors face criminal probe - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "A former medical board investigator says a report recommending criminal charges be considered against six Queensland doctors should go further.
The report is the result of an investigation lead by former Fitzgerald inquiry prosecutor and Brisbane barrister Jeff Hunter.
Mr Hunter was hired by the State Government following whistleblower complaints last year, and asked to determine if charges should be laid against doctors who were disciplined over the deaths or harming of their patients.
The ABC has obtained a copy of the report, which recommends six doctors be referred to police for possible criminal charges involving 23 cases.
But whistleblower and former investigator for the Medical Board of Queensland, Jo Barber, says that figure should be closer to 100.
"I am very surprised that they have only chosen to look at six doctors," she said.
"I worked at the medical board and I am familiar with the files there and there are many, many more than six doctors that should be investigated for criminal offences."
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