The commission was established by the Queensland Governor-In-Council in 2005 to investigate, among other things, the conduct of Dr Jayant Patel, a former surgeon of Bundaberg Base Hospital.
This changed in 2005 when the practices of rogue surgeon Jayant Patel at the Bundaberg Base Hospital were uncovered.
Over 60 years after Starke's retirement, Justice Dyson Heydon, in his reasons for allowing an appeal brought by Jayant Patel against manslaughter convictions, noted that Patel's charge sheet listed fraud charges before manslaughter charges and said: "The young Hayden Starke would have applauded this decision to place important questions of dollars and cents ahead of mere manslaughter matters".
Queensland Health and the Bundaberg Base Hospital were involved in a scandal surrounding the employment of surgeon Jayant Patel.
Patel | Jayant Narlikar | Upen Patel | Jayant Patel | Jabbar Patel | Dev Patel | Marilyn Hall Patel | Harish Patel | Vallabhbhai Patel | Shernaz Patel | Sharad Patel | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy | Jayant Patil | Ishu Patel | Ashmit Patel | Viraf Patel | Shwetak Patel | Saurabh Patel | Sameer Iqbal Patel | Ramanbhai Patel | Priti Patel | Praful Patel | Patel Taylor | Patel Sudhakar Reddy (right), standing with People's War State committee secretary Ramakrishna | Pannalal Patel | Pankaj Patel | Neilesh Patel | Min Patel | Karsanbhai Patel | Jayant Kripalani |