The total cost of the NRAH project has now blown out by $405 million more than the $1.7 billion promised by the Labor Government at the last election. Evidence to the Budget and Finance Committee on Monday indicated that the Weatherill Labor Government was now considering spending another $5-10 million on an air tube transportation…
SA Health has confirmed 200 nursing positions will be cut before 30 June next year. In evidence to the Legislative Council Budget and Finance Committee yesterday, SA Health Chief Executive David Swan said there would be 683.9 full-time jobs cuts in health, and 200 would be nursing positions. “This is yet another broken promise by…
A rally will be held on the steps of Parliament House this morning to protest against the closure of the Modbury Hospital Paediatric ward. Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas said Premier Weatherill’s plan to close the Modbury Hospital paediatric ward was a cruel blow to families in the north eastern suburbs. “Unlike Labor, State Liberal…
Another day of ramping at Flinders Medical Centre has confirmed yet again that the South Australian health system is out of control. “The situation this afternoon was as bad as many long-term observers have ever seen,” said Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas. “Every public hospital in metropolitan Adelaide was significantly over capacity. The situation was…
The Upper House Select Committee into Child Protection will meet for the first time today to organise its establishment and administration. A motion put forward by Family First to establish a Select Committee to investigate matters raised by the Debelle Inquiry passed Parliament’s Upper House last week. The Select Committee will consist of the Hon…
Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas today accused Premier Jay Weatherill of ‘gross hypocrisy’ in his claim of transparency and accountability in releasing details of all ministerial credit card expenses. Last week, Mr Weatherill announced all spending by ministers and their staff would be exposed to public scrutiny by regularly publishing credit card statements on the…
Premier Jay Weatherill ran a fear campaign during the federal election about claimed cuts under a Coalition Government. Just one day after this scare campaign finished, Mr Weatherill announced cuts to jobs and beds at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital and the closure of the Modbury Hospital paediatric ward. “It is the height of hypocrisy…
In an extraordinary backflip, Health Minister Snelling is now offering Keith Hospital total grant funding of $1 million per year just three years after the Labor Government decided to cut funding by $370,000 per year. Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas said the Labor Government’s handling of Keith Hospital’s funding had been an unmitigated disaster. “The…
Shadow Minister for Health Rob Lucas said today that the new Royal Adelaide Hospital (NRAH) was like a ‘fiscal vacuum cleaner’, sucking virtually every last dollar out of the health budget to the detriment of other projects. “It is already apparent that the $400 million a year from 2016 just for the non-clinical costs of…
Shadow Minister for Health, Rob Lucas, said today that another major financial scandal was brewing in SA Health over the $400 million plus EPAS (Enterprise Patient Administration System) IT project. It is now clear Minister Snelling is desperate to keep a ‘lid on’ this looming scandal until after the March 2014 election. Mr Snelling was…