This contract arrangement appears to be spiralling into a crisis. Here are a few key indicators:

• Staff turnover – scientists leaving and not being replaced
• Workloads are reaching a critical stage – meal breaks and rest breaks hardly able to be taken
• Rosters are getting worse and worse with positions simply taken away.
• Scientists rostered to work out of their discipline.
• Test turnaround times – blowing out
• Major tests not being done on site
• Training & teaching arrangements broken down
• Antiquated equipment and software that creates excessive work and problems.

Western Health in the meantime appears to want to pretend, at least publicly, that ‘all’s good’.