Shadow Minister for Health Rob Lucas said today the proposed closure of paediatric services at Modbury Hospital was due to financial mismanagement and waste relating to blowouts on a number of projects such as $40 million on the Oracle IT project. The Government’s controversial proposal to close the designated paediatric ward has been done so…
Health Minister Snelling must explain why there has been a significant reduction this year in referrals from SA Health to the Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) for home-based health care. It was revealed today at least 40 full-time jobs will be lost from the RDNS because of this reduction in referrals. Shadow Health Minister Rob…
Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas today accused Premier Weatherill of outrageous and shameless politicising of the public service. The attached political message attacking Federal Liberal leader Tony Abbott was circulated to all public servants in Premier Weatherill’s own department. This screenshot was taken from the internal website available to almost 2,000 public servants in the…
Premier Weatherill has continued to use his internal department website to mount partisan political attacks on Liberal Leader Steven Marshall today. “The Liberal Party has been contacted again today by public servants in the Premier’s own department expressing great concern at the Premier’s outrageous use of taxpayer-funded resources,” said Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas. Today…
Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas today accused Premier Weatherill of outrageous and shameless politicising of the public service. The attached political message attacking Federal Liberal leader Tony Abbott was circulated to all public servants in Premier Weatherill’s own department. This screenshot was taken from the internal website available to almost 2,000 public servants in the…
Premier Weatherill has continued to use his internal department website to mount partisan political attacks on Liberal Leader Steven Marshall today. “The Liberal Party has been contacted again today by public servants in the Premier’s own department expressing great concern at the Premier’s outrageous use of taxpayer-funded resources,” said Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas. Today…
Premier Weatherill and Health Minister Snelling have broken another key Labor promise by closing the paediatric ward and services at Modbury Hospital. As recently as February this year, Minister Snelling had been promising families in the north eastern suburbs a ‘paediatric ward’ and ongoing paediatric services: “The secure paediatric ward will allow for any children…
Premier Weatherill’s Budget papers have revealed a massive blowout of more than $40 million in the total cost of SA Health’s new Oracle Corporate Systems IT project. The Labor Government approved funding for Oracle in 2009 and commenced the process for implementation in 2010. The original budget for Oracle was meant to be $23 million,…
Minister Snelling stands condemned for wasting $40 million on an IT project blowout at a time when hospitals cannot meet the demand for emergency treatment for patients. Minister Snelling apologised today for the latest example of ‘queuing’ or ‘ramping’ in hospitals when he apologised for queuing in the corridors at the Royal Adelaide Hospital on…
Shadow Health Minister Rob Lucas said today the Weatherill Labor Government was trying to keep secret the results of confidential planning studies done for the current RAH site. “A senior source within SA Health has confirmed just prior to the last state election the Government commissioned Woodhead International to undertake a major master planning exercise…