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Auditor General’s Report Supports NSW Liberal/Nationals Health Policy

The NSW Liberal/Nationals have welcomed the recommendation of the Auditor General for the Rees Labor Government to adopt our policy of developing clinical networks of medical experts across the State, Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner said today.

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Caryl Haslem makes this comment

Saturday, 28 March 2009

Please work hard to eradicate these Area Health Authorities and re establish and restore authority to hospital Boards. The Area Health Authorities are a blight upon us and a totaly unnecessary drain on finances. Please someone do an audit on them. Caryl
Peter Egan makes this comment

Sunday, 29 March 2009

The arts graduate ministers and bureaucrats have made a mess of running the NSW Health System. Medical degrees are harder to get than arts degrees. One assumes doctors are more capable people and thus they should be put in charge of the Health System. They could not do any worse.

The Health System in NSW apparently has 118,000 people. There is no way the arts graduate ministers in the Federal Government would cope with 400,000 people in a national health system - it would be four times the size of the Defence Forces.
Jane makes this comment

Thursday, 23 April 2009

I would be extremely interested in hearing the breakdown of the employment figures.

My stretch in NT Education administration from 1982 to 1992 saw the administrative empire building boom after Bob Hawke gained power. It may not have been illegal but it was immoral for Federal Grants to be whittled away by administraion charges to the point where the person at the coal face was left with less than 50% to apply to courses/teaching/resources/

Is the situation the same in NSW? I rather suspect there is a need for a lot of pruning.
Jillian Skinner MP makes this comment

Monday, 27 April 2009

Thank you for your observations on the problems associated with managing NSW Health. I appreciate your feedback.

A key problem with the management of the public health system under Labor is its over-centralisation, added layers of bureaucratic red tape and remote decision making. As a result patients’ interests get lost. This trend has proved to be particularly inappropriate for decisions concerning patient services and clinical treatment.

In my recently released policy document 'Management of the NSW Health System- Making it work' I have touched on the very issue you have identified, but based on recommendations from the many doctors I have had discussions with, we have given authority back to Clinicians in a different way, but one which I believe will be effective.

You can view this Coalition health policy document via my web site www.jillianskinner.com

Jillian Skinner MP
Shadow Minister for Health
Beldcarl makes this comment

Monday, 08 June 2009

emm.. bookmarked ))