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

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No more public-private partnerships should be entered into for public hospitals in NSW, a parliamentary inquiry into the troubled Northern Beaches Hospital has recommended after hearing that some services were only being made available to private patients.

The inquiry report, released on Thursday, made 23 recommendations and had one finding: that the public-private partnership model "has the potential to negatively affect people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds".

Other recommendations included that the hospital's private provider Healthscope ensure the same levels of service are provided to public and private patients, publish ongoing information on all services provided to both groups and out-of-pocket patient costs, and put up signs at points of admission telling public patients of their right to free treatment.

The hospital, which is run by a consortium led by Healthscope under a $2.2 billion 20-year contract, recently came under fire after it was

 

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Qldaah Did they also recommend no more selling of hospitals to Cayman Island companies? Shouldn’t we be entitled to know who owns our hospitals?

PPPs for all major public infrastructuse, including roads should be stopped. It's beyond a joke.

- pulse in 2017

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Unless Australians are alert, else this happened.

Just a giant trash fire and the state government adding to the federal LNP assault on Medicare.

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