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02/12/2018

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01/12/2018

The NSW Coalition government's privatisation of the Northern Beaches Hospital on the city's upper North Shore has created a crisis situation with the cancellation of elective surgery and doctors threatening to strike over staff shortages and lack of vital medical supplies.

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01/12/2018

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30/11/2018

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30/11/2018

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30/11/2018

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29/11/2018

Here a few reasons why nurse bullying is dangerous and unacceptable.

28/11/2018

A group that advocates moving the new Tweed Hospital from its planned site at Kingscliff says Tweed residents have been ‘misled’ by advertising and email correspondence from NSW Health Infrastructure.

27/11/2018

A WSLHD memo to all staff has informed “both junior medical staff and senior medical staff that unrostered overtime required for patient care is to be claimed.”

26/11/2018

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25/11/2018

'Tell us again they're teething problems': A new mother had no idea how close she came to dying after undergoing a caesarean section at the Northern Beaches Hospital.

23/11/2018

Doctors at Sydney's new Northern Beaches Hospital (NBH) saved Astrid McCrank's life during a complicated caesarean, but what happened afterwards has left her too scared to have more children there.

Ms McCrank's life was on the line when she gave birth to her daughter Lillie on November 5 - seven weeks premature.

While both survived a complicated emergency caesarean, Ms McCrank described her subsequent care at the $600 million facility as traumatic.

She claimed the situation at the NBH was so dire, midwives had to bring medical supplies from their cars.

"You'd hear the midwives saying how they couldn't find band-aids and Panadol," Ms McCrank said.

"They'd run out of [the painkiller] Fentanyl and they were pouring small quantities into bigger bags to try to make up a drip."

Her husband David McCrank said he eventually bought some painkillers from a supermarket.

"In a brand new hospital, you shouldn't have to worry about the lack of stuff like people, equipment or training," he said.

Their baby is still in hospital, and the couple said staff had been complaining about stock and staffing shortages this week, after the facility was officially opened.

Source and FULL article (more patient stories): www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-23/northern-beaches-hospital-experience-made-mother-scared/10517544

21/11/2018

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard only learnt on Wednesday morning that the CEO of the new $600 million Northern Beaches Hospital had resigned. The hospital is owned by Healthscope but required to take a quota of public patients after Manly District Hospital was closed and Mona Vale Hospital was decreased to less than half its original size and losing its emergency and acute care facilities.

The Manly Hospital site has been slated for future land sale after its demolition. (The NSW government will pay for the demolition).

CEO Deborah Latta resigned on Wednesday morning, two days after she celebrated the official opening of the hospital and only three weeks after it welcomed its first patients.

"The running of an enterprise of this size and complexity takes a huge amount of energy, I’ve run my leg of the race and it’s time to pass the baton", she said.

Healthscope executives are scheduling emergency meetings with the hospital's anaesthetists and other specialities to neutralise dissent ahead of the crisis meeting last night.

Healthscope's new chief medical officer Dr Victoria Atkinson is expected to attend the meeting, where the hospital's senior doctors will discuss "issues regarding patient safety" and staffing, according to the meeting agenda.

Hazzard repeated his characterisation of the problems as "teething issues".

"The bottom line here is we have a fantastic hospital," he said, adding one specialist had described it as "Disneyland for doctors".

NSW opposition leader Michael Daley called the events a "debacle" and questioned why Healthscope had to appoint an interim CEO if Ms Latta’s departure had been planned.

"This is not something that inspires confidence in the health system," he said.

Labor health spokesperson Walt Secord said the public-private hospital was the "Americanisation of the health system" that put "profits before patients".

Privatising a public service has never worked well, and the new Frenchs Forest 488 bed hospital has been a shambles with insufficient medical supplies, dangerously low staffing levels and insufficient staff training. These things cost money and therefore eat into profits....