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End to public/private 'partnered' hospitals in NSW
Mar 27^th, 2025 at 11:30am

Editorial:- Since this is such a sweeping national issue, in reality, having to place it in NSW is restrictive and feels crowded. This issue of privatisation overall and especially of essential services is a massive one covering the whole of Australia. Once again - the tide shows signs of turning.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/joe-s-law-hospital-public-private-partn...

"The NSW government has announced sweeping new legislation, affectionately dubbed Joe's Law, to honour the memory of two-year-old Joe Massa, who died last September while being treated at the Northern Beaches Hospital in Sydney.

A Health Services Bill amendment will be introduced later today to ban all future public-private hospital partnerships at acute hospitals to protect them against privatisation.

Health Minister Ryan Park said the change will keep public hospitals in public hands.

"The model that is Northern Beaches Hospital is not a model we believe should be running our hospitals here in New South Wales," he said.

"We cannot afford for this type of model to be in place again."

Joe, who had hypovolemia which occurs when the body loses too much fluid, had to wait more than two-and-a-half hours for a bed at the Northern Beaches Hospital on September 14.

His mother Elouise's pleas for intravenous fluids were rejected and Joe was later taken to Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick, where he died.

Minns said the legislation will ensure no other family goes through what the Massa family have experienced — "every parent's worst nightmare".

"There's a bottom line here, and the bottom line is that healthcare should not primarily be about making profit, it should be about saving lives and ensuring people get healthy, and that's what the health system is designed to do," he said.

"And we can't forget that, not with the dollars and cents that run through a budget, not with the profit and loss, not with the annual budget result, not with all of the intricacies of complicated contracts with private companies.

"The bottom line is that you can get back to your family, that you are protected, that you're getting the world's best care. Clearly, that didn't happen for baby Joe and the Massa's have shown that we need to do everything possible to ensure that another family doesn't go through the same tragedy."

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Daves2017 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1697 Gender:	Re: End to public/private 'partnered' hospitals in NSW Reply #1 - Apr 5^th, 2025 at 3:43pm Going be a lot of politicians upset for not getting anymore kickbacks or jobs for the boys with this going into law!
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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 50824 Gender:	Re: End to public/private 'partnered' hospitals in NSW Reply #2 - Apr 5^th, 2025 at 4:09pm America's political industry is a Privatised format.
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Daves2017 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 1697 Gender:	Re: End to public/private 'partnered' hospitals in NSW Reply #3 - Apr 7^th, 2025 at 12:33pm Jasin wrote on Apr 5^th, 2025 at 4:09pm: America's political industry is a Privatised format. And look at how that’s working out!
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