I cant believe my eyes and my poor English!!
Singaporean would be oz PR beware.If u are admitted to NSW
public hospitals,u are be prepared that the patients next to you
are different
gender!!Interesting if u are guys,but not fun if u are
ladies!!
Why ? Why ? Why?
What are the reasons that NSW,one of the richest
states,arrange
in this way?If PAP do this,i think few GRC will be lost in next
GE!!
Have your frens and relatives in NSW warned you?
How about in other Australia states?
But SG people shall be grateful to learn that in UK,
over 70% are still mixed wards!!
：www.open.ac.uk/platform/news/health/can-you-e..
May be we SG or Asian people just cant accept thsi culture.
BTW,do u think ang moh like this idea?
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Single-sex wards returnto NSW
By Kate Sikora
''March 24, 2009 12:00am
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HOSPITALS are to be
radically reformed, with single gender wards returning, under major
changes to be announced by the State Government.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal the Government will
restructure hospitals - with some services possibly shutting - when
it officially responds next Monday to the Garling inquiry, held
last year into NSW hospitals.
Mixed-gender wards will be wiped out where possible, with
men and women returning to single-sex rooms or separate ward
bays.
It follows Commissioner Peter Garling SC's disgust at men and women sharing wards when he
handed down his 1100-page report last November. The move
back to gender wards will cost $12 million over four years and was
approved by Cabinet last night.
Is the back to the future appraoch the best way to
fix the state's hospitals? Tell us below
Health Minister John Della Bosca said public hospitals
needed to have greater resources to place men and women in separate
rooms.
Under the new plans, elderly patients would be treated in
their homes rather than in hospitals in order to alleviate pressure
on the system.
In his report, Mr Garling said hospitals were not a suitable
environment for the elderly.
"My recommendations are designed to encourage models which
deliver as much care as possible in the home and not in the
hospital, which is a very alienating place for older citizens," Mr
Garling said.
Other reforms include:
* THE sacking of doctors who repeatedly fail to wash
their hands;
* BEDSIDE briefings by doctors and formal shift
handovers;
* BETTER supervision of junior doctors; and
* EMERGENCY response teams within hospitals.
The Garling inquiry began a year ago and was aimed at
restoring the ailing health system. The landmark 10-month
investigation followed a string of mishaps and the death of
teenager Vanessa Anderson.
The 15-year-old died at Royal North Shore Hospital in
November 2005 after being given the wrong medication for a brain
injury after she was struck in the head by a golf ball.
Mr Garling's controversial report made 139 recommendations,
some of them regarded as radical.
At least 10 hospital emergency departments were deemed
"unsafe" or unnecessary.
The Government has been considering whether to endorse Mr
Garling's recommendation to close Manly, Ryde, Sydney, Mt Druitt,
Auburn, Camden, Bulli and Kurri Kurri's emergency
departments.''
