stiff up after stuff up and she still refuses to go.

I'm typing all this because there's no link that I can find, however it is from an article by Rose Brennan - Health Reporter in today's printed Daily Telegraph. Auditor General's Report 2015-2016


Our Sick State of Health

Report reveals too many dying in hospitals due to bungled procedures

The State's (NSW) Auditor General's Health Report 2015-2016 reveals ...


50 patients died or had to undergo extra surgery due to bungles

47 "sentinel events" in 2015-2016 led to death or serious harm

20 instances of medical instruments or other material retained in a patient after surgery

15 people suicided while inpatients

6 women died during pregnancy, childbirth or within six weeks of birth

3 people were killed by incorrect administration of drugs


Massive Overtime Payments Being Earned by Doctors Also Revealed

North Sydney registrar raked in $201,804 in overtime on top of a base salary of $115,543

YES!!! She does need to resign. Are we going to go through a Royal Commission as well when she is Fired/Resigns?!

I mean there is almost a Royal Commission for everything in government.

This ends one of the worst chapters in NSW's Healthcare history, thank heavens for that. It's not about Liberal or Labor politics with me, it was always about a ridiculous bloated ego that had no time for hospital protocols and explicit principles of patient care, all documented Healthcare principles, but Skinner absolutely failed to understand them, if she even read them


A Health Minister is responsible for ensuring that everyone understands what a hospital is all about - PATIENT CARE, but once that is lost, hospitals become what they did under Skinner, slaughter houses, the buck stopped with her. Don't think for one minute that the few reported cases in the news were the only cases of ill treatment, when the defective ball starts rolling because of a ineffective and egotistical UTube Minister, the ball just keeps rolling, damaging everything in it's path for their whole tenure. I would ask everyone to dismiss Skinner's self professed legacy:

“significant reforms within the NSW health system – from culture and management to hospital performance"

and

“Most importantly, I have always believed in putting the patient first in everything we do,”


Ok so why did we have this in the news? ...

Skinner has been under pressure to resign since last year after a series of controversies.
   <-------- not the only mishaps, many unreported you hear about by word of mouth


I don't only post on message boards, I've been active touring hospitals and corresponding with officials. I saw very few hospital staff who took their job seriously. I saw teenage staff who were in positions that required "people" and "communication" skills, fail miserably. I've seen doctors who wouldn't know a patient from a cow. I've seen the disgusting lack of remorse from staff when a patient was killed due to over-use of opiates and starved of food (my mother). I've seen abuses by staff towards patients when I myself was a patient, sexual molestation among them. I've seen female staff who were obviously housewives in need of a job, but the fact they worked in a hospital didn't seem to dawn on them, money seemed to be more important


Only one public hospital I visited could be described as a "Caring" hospital, not a big hospital, but a well managed one, with polite staff who gave due consideration to their patients   


Let's all hope that the new Premier selects a human being for Minister this time around, it's imperative that patients come first, but Skinner lied about that and now she's gone, we can breath a sigh of relief. I hope NSW never has a self indulging and disinterested minister like her again


NSW health minister Jillian Skinner announces retirement from politics

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jan/27/nsw-health-minister-jilli...