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<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThis follows Labor\u2019s earlier announcements to provide 5,500 more nurses; 1,500 more paramedics; 2,240 more cleaning, support personnel and allied health workers; and 250 more security staff to protect patients and health workers.
\n\u201cRegional hospitals and health services around the State \u2013 particularly on the North Coast \u2013 have been neglected for too long under the Liberals and Nationals,\u201d Mr Daley said.
\nMr Pugh said the local area had been demanding better health services, but that the Liberals and Nationals were simply refusing to listen to the community.
\nBallina District Hospital\u2019s catchment area has experienced significant population growth over the last eight months.
\nLabor\u2019s Ballina District Hospital Redevelopment project will deliver:<\/p>\n
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- A fully operational Integrated Perioperative Unit including:\n
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- an additional three-bed Recovery and two new Operating Theatres and a six-bed Recovery area;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- Expansion and relocation of the remainder of the Medical Imaging Department;<\/li>\n
- Construction of a new Emergency Department, Ambulance Bay, Allied Health and Outpatient areas; and<\/li>\n
- Expanded medical and rehabilitation inpatient services, support services including pathology and pharmacy and the construction of a new integrated Ambulatory Care Precinct.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Recent independent data from the Bureau of Health Information (BHI), reveals that Ballina District Hospital is under pressure.
\nIts emergency department attends to more than 17,000 patients a year \u2013 with 17 per cent waiting longer than four hours. However, 10 per cent of patients waited longer than five hours and 21 minutes.
\nIn addition, the average waiting time for\u00a0\u201cnon-urgent\u201d surgery was 242 days;\u00a0this was an increase of 39 days over the previous year.
\nAs of December 31, there were 238 patients waiting for non-urgent elective surgery.
\n\u201cNo one can forget the images of a patient several years ago lying on the concrete outside Ballina Hospital\u2019s emergency department; it is time to fix this hospital,\u201d Mr Pugh said.
\nMr Pugh said the coming NSW election would be a referendum on health services on the North Coast.
\n\u201cThis is one of the most over-stretched hospitals in the state and the hospital upgrade and additional staff are desperately needed,\u201d Mr Pugh said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Daley Labor Government will provide $80.4 million to re-develop the Ballina District Hospital, as part of Labor\u2019s Schools and Hospitals before Stadium plan. NSW Labor leader Michael Daley made the announcement with Labor Candidate for Ballina Asren Pugh today. This follows Labor\u2019s earlier announcements to provide 5,500 more nurses; 1,500 more paramedics; 2,240 more … Continue reading “Labor to fund $80.4M Ballina District Hospital re-development”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}