SA Health documents released under Freedom of Information confirm there has been a further $30 million blowout in the EPAS IT project. Documents presented to the December 2013 meeting of the EPAS Program Board state: “…the budget to activate Pt Augusta and Daw House has already been exceeded by $18.9 million. The current forecasts of…
Serious delays in appointments and a lack of appropriate treatment are putting South Australians at risk of suffering avoidable blindness. The Macular Disease Foundation Australia has warned that people with deteriorating vision are being placed on long waiting lists to get a diagnosis, even though delays beyond a few weeks of disease onset can lead…
Renewal SA Chief Executive Fred Hansen today contradicted significant parts of Premier Weatherill and Treasurer Koutsantonis’s defence of their controversial Gillman land deal. Mr Hansen, the first witness to give evidence to the Legislative Council Select Committee into the deal, confirmed the Renewal SA Board had either not supported or voted against Board papers recommending…
South Australia’s major hospitals are amongst the worst performing in the nation when it comes to treating patients in their Emergency Departments within the required period of time. “Figures released today by the National Health Performance Authority show South Australia has the worst Emergency Department performance in Australia and is going backwards when compared to…
The Weatherill Labor Government has begun the budget blame game by using the recent Federal Budget in an attempt to cover up 12 years of its own financial mismanagement of the South Australian health budget. “South Australians don’t be fooled – the budget blame game has begun and will continue until the State Budget is…
Comments withdrawn by Labor Member of the Legislative Council, John Gazzola, in Parliament late this afternoon is nothing more than a cosmetic attempt to paper over Labor division. In Parliament this afternoon, Mr Gazzola said: “To assist you in maintaining the standards of the council, I withdraw my use of unparliamentary language and reflecting on…
Premier Jay Weatherill and Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis will be called to give evidence before the Select Committee into the sale of State Government owned land at Gillman. The Committee will invite former head of Renewal SA, Fred Hansen, to give evidence before moving back to the United States of America in the week beginning 2…
The Weatherill Labor Government’s deep divisions are again on display with former President of the Legislative Council John Gazzola labelling current President Russell Wortley a parasite and calling on him to resign. “Sir, normally I would congratulate you on becoming the President of the Legislative Council. Given the circumstances and by the mere fact that…
Health Minister Jack Snelling’s scare campaign about the impact of possible reductions in Federal health funding only serves to highlight the jobs the Weatherill Government is currently cutting from SA Health, and announced last year. In his release today regarding recommendations of the Commission of Audit Minister Snelling said: while the (State) Government had no…
Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas has called on Premier Weatherill to recommit to his Labor Government’s redevelopment of the Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) before the release of the State Budget in June. During the recent state election, the Weatherill Labor Government committed $117.5 million to redevelop the Flinders Medical Centre, which included building two new…