No more public-private partnerships should be entered into for public hospitals in NSW,an inquiry into the troubled Northern Beaches Hospital has recommended.
A Sydney hospital allegedly offered a $500 incentive to boost private patient"conversions"and training staff to sign consent forms on sick patients'behalf.
NSW Police are investigating after an employee at a Sydney hospital allegedly forged patients'signatures to have them admitted as private patients.
Bec Secomb is one of a growing number of Sydney women having what is called a maternal-assisted caesarean.
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.
The infected person visited a number of locations including a local high school,hospital and mall.
And the wait for a deliverance of coral.
Northern Beaches Hospital operator Healthscope was forced to dock its own monthly payments after it failed to meet a number of KPIs.
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.
Northern Beaches Hospital will have a new chief executive straight out of the public system amid a parliamentary probe.
The report provides the most comprehensive rebuke of the repeated assurances that the problems plaguing the hospital were just teething problems.