Health Minister Mark Butler implored Healthscope and the insurers to “sit down and sort this out”,with almost half of insured Australians set to be impacted.
Northern Beaches Hospital owes $280 million to Healthscope,the private hospital operator that tumbled to a $649 million loss in 2023.
The GP clinic is meant to cut wait times at Northern Beaches Hospital. Instead,it’s struggling to stay open.
Nurses were told this week staff would be cut from several units at the hospital amid reports operating company Healthscope is undergoing a major corporate restructure.
The initial complaints were deemed to be so serious that,after an urgent hearing of the NSW Medical Council in 2021,conditions were placed on his ability to practise.
Peter Dutton and his party’s problem is that they keep blaming everyone else for their failure.
Families with relatives at St Basil's Homes for the Aged have called for the facility to be shut down and residents evacuated to hospitals.
The drop in membership cost health funds $100 million in premiums,but experts predict even sharper falls in private health membership.
NSW Police are investigating after an employee at a Sydney hospital allegedly forged patients'signatures to have them admitted as private patients.
The inquiry has been told it was"appalling"that some services,such as heart and brain surgery,were provided solely to private patients in violation of an agreement with NSW Health.
Northern Beaches Hospital operator Healthscope was forced to dock its own monthly payments after it failed to meet a number of KPIs.