Earlier this week, HSD reported<\/a> that the SDPRIA had said it was working \u201ccollaboratively\u201d with the Health Services Union and employees to address workplace concerns.<\/p>\n\u201cThe wellbeing of our staff members remains our priority and we take all concerns raised by our staff very seriously,\u201d said the SDPRIA\u2019s CEO Dr Teresa Anderson.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are committed to ensuring they are supported, engaged, and experience a psychologically safe workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite that response, the reality on the ground is vastly different, said HSD\u2019s anonymous source.<\/p>\n
\u201cStaff are spoken to by executive management in a condescending, patronising, dismissive manner on a daily basis,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are never consulted, we are just told what to do with an unrealistic deadline.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are endless internal information requests and directives \u2013 it\u2019s a constant drain of our mental energy and productivity.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow is this consideration of our wellbeing?<\/p>\n
\u201cIf anyone makes a mistake or has an error in judgment, rather than being spoken to in a respectful manner and provided information to do better or correct a mistake, the staff are dragged over hot coals and formally punished.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany people have been, and continue to be, scapegoated by the executive team. How is this psychologically safe?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0The SDPRIA worker said what started as an exciting, challenging program has devolved into a nightmare.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, a program this size and scale is challenging, but it is made unnecessarily more challenging by the executive leadership team,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir lack of operational planning and skilled strategic leadership \u2013 choosing \u2018reactive authoritarian management\u2019 instead \u2013 is making us sick, tired and frustrated to the point of wanting to leave as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will be a great loss of talent but the leadership doesn\u2019t care if people quit.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople were originally excited to join the program because it was sold as a once-in-a-career opportunity, to work on the country\u2019s largest digital health transformation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the staff are still connected to the meaning and purpose of this program, and the necessity of a statewide eMR, the physical, mental, and emotional toll outweighs anything positive,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust when you think it could not possibly get worse, it does.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Just when you think it could not possibly get worse, it does’: Another Single Digital Patient Record Implementation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,32235,137,500,53534,43842,339255,339256,1884],"class_list":["post-827762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-digital-health","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-interoperability","tag-nsw-health","tag-sdpr","tag-sdpria","tag-workforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}