October 2009
LIBS & NATS FORCE GOVT TO SUPPORT BLUE MOUNTAINS HOSPITAL MATERNITY UNIT
Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner today said the NSW Liberals & Nationals won a small victory for the community, forcing Labor to support a motion in Parliament this week calling on the Rees Government to honour its commitment to the member for Blue Mountains and local residents that the maternity unit at Blue Mountains Hospital will remain open permanently.Friday 30 October 2009
CATARACT WAITING LISTS IN NSW: REES MUST GET RUDD TO REINSTATE REBATE
Nathan Rees must speak to his Labor colleague Kevin Rudd and force him to reinstate the rebate for cataract surgery his government is so cruelly cutting, Deputy NSW Opposition Leader and Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner and NSW Leader of the Nationals Andrew Stoner said today.Thursday 29 October 2009
HORNSBY HOSPITAL STRUGGLING TO COPE: SOME 22 SUPERBUG PATIENTS, ONLY 2 ISOLATION ROOMS
Hornsby Hospital staff are struggling under the weight of up to 22 patients infected with superbug MRSA with only two dedicated isolation rooms, in a further display the NSW health system is on the brink, Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner said today.Thursday 29 October 2009
REES TURNS HIS BACK ON HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN – ‘YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN’
Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner today condemned Nathan Rees’ decision to reject pleas from concerned parents to keep St Gabriel’s early intervention centre open to continue helping their hearing impaired children.Wednesday 28 October 2009
FEDERAL LABOR MP BACKS NSW LIBERAL POLICY FOR CENTRAL COAST HEALTH DISTRICT
Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner today welcomed federal Member for Dobell Craig Thomson’s support for the NSW Liberal plan to create a separate Central Coast Health District if elected to State Government in 2011.Tuesday 27 October 2009
THE FACE OF LABOR’S BROKEN HEALTH SYSTEM GRANDMOTHER WAITS 513 DAYS FOR KNEE SURGERY – SHE’S STILL WAITINGAn 87-year-old grandmother who has been waiting more than 500 days in pain for a knee operation is the human face of Labor’s broken health system, Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner said today.Thursday 22 October 2009
HEARTLESS REES LABOR GOVT: HEARING TESTS FOR BABIES BUT NO FUNDS FOR FOLLOW UP TREATMENT
Despite boasting about providing hearing screening for newborn babies, the heartless Rees Labor Government is not providing follow up assistance for those found to have a hearing impairment, Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner said today.Thursday 22 October 2009
SKINNER ASKS PARLIAMENT TO HELP KEEP GRAYTHWAITE GROUNDS OPEN
North Shore MP Jillian Skinner today sought Parliament’s involvement in trying to maintain public access to the grounds of North Sydney’s Graythwaite Estate and to guarantee extra rehab beds would be provided from its sale.Thursday 22 October 2009
TEBBUTT MISLEAD PARLIAMENT ON REDUNDANCIES OFFERRED TO FRONTLINE NURSES
Health Minister Carmel Tebbutt mislead Parliament when she said in September that the Rees Labor Government was not offering nurses redundancies, Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner said today.Thursday 22 October 2009
TEBBUTT DISADVANTAGES RURAL STUDENTS WITH DOWNGRADING OF DALWOOD CENTRE
Shadow Health Minister Jillian Skinner has criticised the Rees Labor Government for its plans to downgrade the highly-successful, state-of-the-art Dalwood Centre in Seaforth that offers a Sydney-based service for rural students with learning difficulties. Friday 16th October 2009
CARMEL TEBBUTT CONTRADICTS KEVIN RUDD ON NSW HOSPITAL PERFORMANCE: OUT OF HER DEPTH
NSW Health Minister Carmel Tebbutt directly contradicted Kevin Rudd on the performance of NSW public hospitals following the release of AMA public hospital report card, Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner said today. Thursday 15 October 2009
AMA CALLS LABOR ON HEALTH FAILURE: NSW PERFORMANCE ‘WORSENS’, ‘DISTURBING’, ‘DANGEROUS’
NSW needs a devolution of healthcare management to break up Labor’s centralised control of our public hospitals if the problems highlighted by the AMA’s public hospital report card are to be overcome, Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner said today. Wednesday 14 October 2009
PIZZA SUSTAINS AMBULANCE OFFICERS AS THEY DELIVER SICK PATIENTS TO WESTMEAD HOSPITAL
``Ambulance officers attending Sydney’s Westmead Hospital are routinely ordering pizza because delays are now so long’’
Union boss and former ALP candidate Jim Arneman, The Australian today
Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner today expressed her outrage at revelations from National Council of Ambulance Unions Secretary and former ALP candidate Jim Arneman that ambulance officers waiting to deliver patients to emergency were routinely ordering pizza at Westmead Hospital because the delays were now so long. Monday 12 October 2009
TEBBUTT MUST ACT TO ENSURE DRUGS ARE SAFE AND AT RISK PATIENTS IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED
Shadow Health Minister Jillian Skinner has condemned the NSW Labor Government for failing to notify patients at serious risk because they have been administered potentially contaminated drugs. Monday 12th October 2009
NSW LIBERALS TO ESTABLISH CENTRAL COAST HEALTH DISTRICT
Central Coast health services will be run within its own Health District and oversighted by a Board comprising local community representatives and health professionals under a NSW Liberal & Nationals plan to better focus on the needs of families. Monday 12 October 2009
LABOR’S HOSPITAL INFECTION FAILURE: TEBBUTT MUST ADOPT NSW LIB/NATS PLAN
The Rees Labor Government’s failure to tackle hospital acquired infections has been exposed as Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner renewed calls for Carmel Tebbutt to stop axing nurses and adopt the NSW Liberals & Nationals’ plan to drive them down. Friday 9 October 2009
TEBBUTT MUST INVESTIGATE ALLEGATION THAT 'NOISY' ICU MONITORS TURNED OFF
Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner has called on the Rees Labor Government to investigate a disturbing allegation that monitoring systems in the high-dependency unit at Westmead Hospital are deliberately being silenced by staff because the noise they make is ‘irritating’. Friday 9 October 2009
MORE EVIDENCE NATHAN REES GOT IT WRONG WHEN HE CLOSED WESTMEAD MORGUE
Ten bodies were transferred to the morgue Nathan Rees closed when he became Premier because Glebe Morgue went onto ‘code red’ and couldn’t cope, NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell and Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner revealed today. Friday 9 October 2009
LABOR MUST ADOPT NSW LIB/NATS PLANS TO REDUCE HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTIONS
Shadow Minister for Health Jillian Skinner today said the State Labor Government must adopt the NSW Liberals & Nationals policy and make public reporting of hospital acquired infections at a hospital ward level mandatory. Monday 5 October 2009
TEBBUTT NOT TELLING TRUTH ABOUT FRONT-LINE HOSPITAL STAFF CUTS
(Here's the evidence - North Coast cuts, Greater Southern cuts, Greater Western cuts, Sydney West cuts)
Shadow Health Minister Jillian Skinner today accused new Health Minister Carmel Tebbutt of either being grossly ill-informed or simply not telling the truth over her consistent denials there of no planned cuts to hospital front-line staff in NSW. Friday October 2nd, 2009