HOSPITALS – GOVERNMENT POLICY – VICTORIA

Conflicting vows worry hospitals

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Original article by Julia Medew, Kate Hagan
The Age – Page: 9 : 27-Nov-14

New spending of similar magnitude has been pledged by both major parties on hospitals, in the final week of the campaign for the Victorian state election on 29 November 2014. However, there are also significant differences, with the Government favouring the Monash Children’s hospital and the Northern Hospital in Epping, while the Australian Labor Party has a focus on Orygen Youth Health in Parkville and a women’s and children’s hospital in Sunshine. Even the details for the proposed heart hospital in Clayton promised by both sides differ

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AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, ORYGEN YOUTH HEALTH, MONASH CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE, MONASH UNIVERSITY, NORTHERN HOSPITAL

Doctors criticise parties for vague poll bed promises

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Original article by Kate Hagan
The Age – Page: 5 : 26-Nov-14

Tony Bartone, president in Victoria of the Australian Medical Association, has said neither major political party is convincing on health in the campaigns for the 29 November 2014 state election. He criticised the Government’s failure to issue details on where a supposed 800 new hospital beds have been allocated. Meanwhile the pledge to invest $A200m in under-utilised hospitals by the Australian Labor Party was also not addressing the longer-term issue of an ageing population. The Coalition has vowed to open a further 800 beds if re-elected

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AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (VICTORIA) LIMITED, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND WELFARE, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, ANGLISS HOSPITAL, CASEY HOSPITAL, MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE, NORTHERN HOSPITAL, BALLARAT HEALTH SERVICES

Labor pledges $60m for new medi-tech hub

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Original article by Kate Hagan
The Age – Page: 4 : 3-Nov-14

Campaigning for the state election to be held on 29 November 2014, Victorian Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews has pledged that the Australian Labor Party would contribute $A60m to the cost of $A180m for a new biomedical engineering centre at St Vincent’s Hospital. The State Government has not specifically matched the promise. Peter Choong, director of orthopaedics at St Vincent’s Hospital, says the proposed Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery will allow for experts to co-operate across disciplines including engineering, medicine and biological sciences

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AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, VICTORIA. DEPT OF HEALTH, ST VINCENT’S HOSPITAL (MELBOURNE) LIMITED, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG, SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, VICTORIAN COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTRE LIMITED, OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN CANCER AND WELLNESS CENTRE, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET

Parties pledge to open new heart hospital in Clayton

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Original article by Kate Hagan, Julia Medew, Richard Willingham
The Age – Page: 12 : 10-Oct-14

Victorian Opposition Leader Dan Andrews says the Australian Labor Party will also build a new hospital that is an election campaign pledge of the State Government. Health Minister David Davis and Premier Denis Napthine have announced plans for a new specialist heart hospital occupying five levels at the Monash Medical Centre in Clayton. Under the Coalition, the funding mix will be $A70m from the Government and $A50m that Monash Health sources from philanthropists. The overall number of cardiac beds will rise by 57 to 100

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MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE, MONASH HEALTH, VICTORIA. DEPT OF HEALTH, VICTORIA. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIAN NURSING AND MIDWIFERY FEDERATION, AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (VICTORIA) LIMITED

Labor vow to act on hospital violence

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Original article by Kate Hagan
The Age – Page: 12 : 27-Jun-14

Victorian Auditor-General John Doyle in 2013 noted that public hospitals were failing to document all cases of violence against their staff. Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews has now vowed to address the issue if elected to govern in November 2014. He made the pledge at the 26 June state delegates’ conference of the Australian Nursing Federation. Health Minister David Davis also spoke, and highlighted new laws that include mandatory minimum sentences for those attacking emergency services workers. The Australian Medical Association applauds the Australian Labor Party’s push for greater transparency on the problem

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AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (VICTORIA) LIMITED, AUSTRALIAN NURSING FEDERATION, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, VICTORIA. DEPT OF HUMAN SERVICES, VICTORIA. AUDITOR-GENERAL’S OFFICE, WESTERN HOSPITAL