The entire Northern Beaches Hospital will move into public hands, after the state government reached an in-principle agreement with the receivers of cash-strapped private operator Healthscope.<\/p>\n
Taxpayers will fork out $190 million to take control of all 494 beds, while clinical and support staff will be offered jobs with NSW Health.<\/p>\n
Since its opening in 2018, the hospital has operated under a public\/private model, with Healthscope providing care to public patients under a contract with the government.<\/p>\n
Mr Minns confirmed this morning the government would pay $190 million to take over the hospital.\u00a0 (ABC News: Ethan Rix)<\/p>\n
However, the death of two-year-old Joe Massa last year exposed a series of deficiencies and the state government since began negotiations to take back control.<\/p>\n
Premier Chris Minns said his government was reversing one of the “worst decisions” of the previous Coalition government, which he said had “foisted” a private hospital model on the people of the Northern Beaches.<\/p>\n
“Our state’s acute hospital services, that provide lifesaving care to the people of New South Wales, should not be privatised,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
he said.<\/p>\n
“Thanks to this decision, no hospital in NSW will be.”<\/p>\n
He also paid tribute Joe Massa’s parents, Elouise and Danny, who have campaigned for the hospital to return to public hands.<\/p>\n
“Their advocacy will leave a lasting legacy for every patient and every family who relies on our public health system.”<\/p>\n
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Toddler Joe Massa died at Northern Beaches Hospital last year. (Supplied)<\/p>\n
In September, the government announced NSW Health staff had been embedded within the hospital, to begin its transition to public hands.<\/p>\n
However, Health Minister Ryan Park has repeatedly spoken of the difficulties in taking back a “public portion” of the hospital, while leaving another portion for a private provider.<\/p>\n
Many of the hospital’s facilities are shared, creating significant challenges when it comes to the division of assets.<\/p>\n
While bringing the whole hospital into public control will eliminate that uncertainty, it will raise more questions about the future of the specialist services currently offered at the facility.<\/p>\n
The state government will announce more details of the in-principle arrangement at a media conference this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The entire Northern Beaches Hospital will move into public hands, after the state government reached an in-principle agreement…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":319697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,17367,160337,50,160336,17364,5326],"class_list":{"0":"post-319696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-chris-minns","10":"tag-healthscope","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-beaches-hospital","13":"tag-nsw","14":"tag-nsw-government"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115408991807301501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}