PriceWaterhouseCoopers recruits NSW health boss Dr Rohan Hammett: Labor calls for cooling off period for bureaucrats

By Nicole Hasham
Updated May 23 2015 - 3:13am, first published 2:27am
Dr Rohan Hammett was appointed as a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers after leaving his job as NSW Health deputy director-general. Photo: Christopher Pearce
Dr Rohan Hammett was appointed as a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers after leaving his job as NSW Health deputy director-general. Photo: Christopher Pearce
Andrew Stoner took a job at an investment bank that he had dealings with as a minister. Photo: James Brickwood
Andrew Stoner took a job at an investment bank that he had dealings with as a minister. Photo: James Brickwood

The Baird government is under pressure to tighten rules for public servants who move to the corporate sector after a senior health bureaucrat took a job selling his expertise to private health operators just as state and federal governments seek to increase private involvement in health and hospitals.