Page 2405 - Week 08 - Thursday, 30 August 2007
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Another quote:
There is a story of mismanagement at Canberra Hospital that is not being told.
And another:
There are issues around the ratio of emergency theatre cases versus elective surgery cases and there are real skills issues related to University Nursing Graduates—
Mr Hargreaves: Where’s any of the proof?
MRS BURKE: The quote continues:
and their non-suitability for “hands-on” work in the wards and theatre—many of the skilled practitioners at the hospital believe Labor’s scheme to educate nurses at a tertiary level has failed the system, in terms of real, practical medical skills …
Ms Gallagher: For 20 years they’ve been doing it.
MRS BURKE: I can hear the interjections opposite. The members opposite must realise that this is not me saying this; I am simply passing this information on so that the minister can target some of the things in order to help and assist. She can take this whichever way she wants to, but I am trying to be as forthcoming as possible. I quote again:
… there are funding issues that apparently determine management decisions regarding the case mix in theatres. That is, the wrong incentives are driving poor decisions that affect patient outcomes.
Another quote:
We want to see a better Canberra Hospital that makes everyone proud—the staff, the patients and Canberrans generally.
Again, I refute any suggestion whatsoever from anybody, either in this place or outside this place, that I am doing nothing more than standing up for nursing staff and allied health professionals across the system. It is disingenuous in the extreme to suggest that I am doing anything other than fighting and standing for people who are doing it very tough in our system—and furthermore, doing it tough in that they cannot even get back into the system and work in a system that they dearly love.
Another quote:
Wouldn’t it be good if Canberra was No. 1 on the list of national hospitals—
in all areas—
instead of last!
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