No more public-private hospitals for NSW,parliamentary inquiry recommends

No more public-private hospitals for NSW,parliamentary inquiry recommends

No more public-private partnerships should be entered into for public hospitals in NSW,an inquiry into the troubled Northern Beaches Hospital has recommended.

  • byPallavi Singhal

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Hospital accused of training staff to sign private patient forms to boost revenue

Hospital accused of training staff to sign private patient forms to boost revenue

A Sydney hospital allegedly offered a $500 incentive to boost private patient"conversions"and training staff to sign consent forms on sick patients'behalf.

  • byDana McCauley
Sacked hospital employee accused of forging forms to boost private admissions

Sacked hospital employee accused of forging forms to boost private admissions

NSW Police are investigating after an employee at a Sydney hospital allegedly forged patients'signatures to have them admitted as private patients.

  • byDana McCauley
How this mother delivered her own daughter via caesarean
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How this mother delivered her own daughter via caesarean

Bec Secomb is one of a growing number of Sydney women having what is called a maternal-assisted caesarean.

  • byKate Aubusson
Surgeon says he would not send a stroke-suffering relative to Northern Beaches Hospital

Surgeon says he would not send a stroke-suffering relative to Northern Beaches Hospital

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.

Second measles case diagnosed on Sydney's northern beaches

Second measles case diagnosed on Sydney's northern beaches

The infected person visited a number of locations including a local high school,hospital and mall.

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New hospital may yet have a very good year
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New hospital may yet have a very good year

And the wait for a deliverance of coral.

Northern Beaches Hospital operator punished itself for failing to meet key targets

Northern Beaches Hospital operator punished itself for failing to meet key targets

Northern Beaches Hospital operator Healthscope was forced to dock its own monthly payments after it failed to meet a number of KPIs.

  • byKate Aubusson
Abandon public-private model at Northern Beaches Hospital,doctors urge state government
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Abandon public-private model at Northern Beaches Hospital,doctors urge state government

In a clear rebuke of the government’s PPP aspirations,the doctors'union has accused Healthscope of acting as if it were running a purely private hospital.

  • byKate Aubusson
Problem-plagued Sydney hospital appoints new chief executive amid inquiry

Problem-plagued Sydney hospital appoints new chief executive amid inquiry

Northern Beaches Hospital will have a new chief executive straight out of the public system amid a parliamentary probe.

  • byKate Aubusson
'Unsustainable','unreliable':damning report for new Sydney hospital
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'Unsustainable','unreliable':damning report for new Sydney hospital

The report provides the most comprehensive rebuke of the repeated assurances that the problems plaguing the hospital were just teething problems.

  • byKate Aubusson