Tag NSW hospitals
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Ending home doctor service will ‘flood emergency departments’
NSW Shadow Health Minister Walt Secord said the federal government’s proposed scrapping of the after-hours GP home doctor service would flood NSW emergency departments with non-urgent cases that should be seen by a GP.
June 27, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Bogus NSW doctor ‘flees to India’
A man caught allegedly masquerading as a doctor in NSW hospitals for more than a decade has reportedly been tracked down hiding in India.
March 15, 2017 | The Echo | 0 -
NSW health minister on her way out
NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner will be shuffled out of Premier Mike Baird’s cabinet: he knows it and she knows it. The only questions are: when, how and who will succeed her?
August 5, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Gas company denies role in baby’s death
A blame game has erupted over the fatal oxygen mix-up at a western Sydney hospital that killed a newborn and left another with suspected brain damage.
August 3, 2016 | Chris Dobney | 1 -
Privatisation plan extends to hospitals: ALP
The NSW opposition has slammed the state government’s plan to sell a portion of the electricity grid saying it is part of an ideological drive that would privatise the state's hospitals as well.
November 26, 2014 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
GP tax ‘will swamp north coast hospitals’
Emergency departments in seven hospitals across the northern rivers would be swamped by an extra 10,000 patients every three months if the federal government’s controversial $7 GP co-payment on doctor visits goes ahead, the state opposition has claimed.
October 22, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 1
