Shemozzle: RACP in crisis as doctors’ meeting looms, whistleblower emerges

It is time for the board to take action, or the regulators to take action, to resolve the chaos at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP). As another member’s meeting approaches, Michael West critical management breakdown and reports on the latest whistleblower complaint.

A former director of the RACP describes it as “chaotic.”

A Whistleblower Complaint to regulators at ASIC – received by MWM – Allegations of “intense personal attacks” by RACP executives, governance violations, potentially “illegal” behavior by executives, and interference with whistleblower complaints.

Governance turmoil has long plagued the College. This latest report from a former senior doctor at the RACP has been linked to discussions between RACP directors and another governance whistleblower, Dr. It comes before the current feud between Sharmilla Chandran, which leaked into the Court a few weeks ago.

Chairperson Professor Jennifer Martin and the board are trying to remove Dr Chandran from the board. The last Extraordinary General Assembly of the members will be held tomorrow at noon.

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The 297-page whistleblower report, obtained by MWM, provides further evidence of governance failures at the RACP and highlights the need for regulators – both ASIC (the corporate regulator) and the ACNC (the charities regulator) – to intervene if there is no solution to the crisis.

“Given its systematic and permanent nature, [directors’] “This and related incidents are contrary to the belief that the primary motivation for these and related incidents was the interests of the University or that they were random or isolated incidents,” the report concludes.

The fight for control of the RACP and efforts to clean up faulty governance practices have been ongoing for much of the last decade. The report submitted to ASIC details a range of questionable governance practices:

The report covers issues related to executives’ performance and “arguably intense personal attacks.”

“I am sending this Whistleblower report directly to ASIC due to the RACP Board’s attempts to interfere with the management of Whistleblower complaints, including the protection of Whistleblowers, and in many cases to actively undermine or ignore legal advice.

“I document some examples of the basis for these concerns in the report. I am also forwarding the report to the ACNC, as the RACP regulator, due to serious governance concerns.”

Whistleblower says the president is Professor Martin wrote that “on many serious matters that I consider to constitute misconduct … I think the request from other Board members could be viewed as a request specifically aimed at protecting Jennifer Martin from appropriate and independent complaint management and investigation and the potential consequences thereof”.

“I believe this Whistleblower report raises serious issues that indicate impropriety, serious misconduct and even potential corruption. I also consider ACNC governance standards to have been violated by the RACP Board of Directors.”

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