The medical director of the Northern Beaches Hospital is on her way out just three weeks after Sydney’s newest hospital opened and amid a litany of problems affecting patients and staff.
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Senior doctors have passed a vote of no confidence in the medical director of the Northern Beaches Hospital the day its CEO resigned in the wake of serial problems at the new facility.
On the day the chief of Sydney's newest hospital resigned,senior doctors passed a vote of no confidence in the Medical Director.
The chief executive of the Northern Beaches Hospital has resigned amid mounting crises plaguing the new $600 million facility.
Specialists at Northern Beaches Hospital have called a crisis meeting and anaesthetists concerned about patient safety have threatened to cancel all elective surgeries.
Healthscope's Northern Beaches Hospital is expected to be put under the microscope as suitor Brookfield Capital Partners conducts due diligence on the private hospital operator.
The mounting concerns over the running of the new Northern Beaches Hospital have been characterised as “hiccups” by Health Minister Brad Hazzard at the $600 million facilities’ official opening on Monday.
Doctors blame a lack of medical staff for the cancellation of some elective surgeries – a claim the private operator of the new Sydney hospital denies.
The Northern Beaches Hospital has only been open for 17 days,but the Herald's investigation has set off a large wave of stories from staff at all levels and patients in all age groups.
The group representing junior doctors made an extraordinary move to force the health ministry to immediately address problems at the hospital.