Former Royal Hobart Hospital boss Jane Holden sues Government to clear her name 4

FORMER Royal Hobart Hospital chief executive Jane Holden is suing the State Government in a bid to clear her name.

Ms Holden was stood down from her role as the head of Tasmania’s Southern Health Service in June after a damning Integrity Commission Report into nepotism in the health system.

Health Minister Michael Ferguson stressed at the time that the ­report was not the reason for Ms Holden’s dismissal.

But the former health boss said the Integrity Commission was a “star chamber” and Mr Ferguson’s comments about the report, made under Parliamentary privilege, had ­destroyed her reputation.

“I have been denied due process and I want to clear my name,” she said yesterday.

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