Access to Healthcare Advocates says OIA not fit for purpose

A group of health advocates want the role of the Chief Ombudsman to be strengthened. Chief Ombudsman Judge Peter Boshier has told Checkpoint he is more unhappy now with aspects of official information request processes than he has ever been. Complaints about responses to Official Information Act (OIA) requests have risen 23.5 percent in six months, he says. Emeritus Professor of Medicine Gil Barbezat is a member of Access to Healthcare Advocates