This thread is a further compilation of reported NSW Health incidences and complaints, as they occur, now and in the future. It's not about Public or Private healthcare per se, nor party politics, but just the mishaps that we all should know about to make us aware of the possibilities of them happening to yourself, your relatives or your friends ... indeed, anyone using the NSW healthcare facilities
We are now in the post Jillian Skinner era, with Bradley Hazzard shuffled into the portfolio of Minister for Health and Minister for Medical Research. The new Minister needs to check the credentials and quality of senior medical staff, doctors and head nurses etc, and weed out the dudds. We can only become "Worlds Best" if both the equipment
and the personnel are top quality
It will be satisfying to me if this thread is never a particularly long thread, because that will mean there will not be many reported mishaps to post in here, and that the new minister will be doing his job properly, disciplining Area Managers and Hospital Managers to put
patients first, instead of the politics of healthcare and politics within health institutions. Politics before patients has, in general, been destroying NSW Healthcare. Under Skinner, politics was more important than the human side of healthcare, patients always came a poor second, most of the time, patients were just objects within a paradigm of strategies and healthcare finances
This latest link can hardly be the fault of the new Minister, it will take a while to get NSW Health back on track after Skinner's appalling tenure. But further mishaps, if any, will be squarely on Bradley Hazzard's head
Second case of infection from heart surgery equipment at Randwick hospital confirmed http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-31/second-case-of-rare-infection-after-heart-...