Unused wards at Campbelltown Hospital were tendered out to film studios by the NSW Liberals and Nationals, documents obtained by NSW Labor have revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The proposed tender details said, \u201cCampbelltown Hospital has vacant\/unused wards that can be used for filming for TV\/Ads\/Movies and other similar such mediums.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The revelations come at a time when the state\u2019s hospital system under the Liberals and Nationals grapple with record hospital wait times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The most recent BHI data revealed that between April and June this year only 42.2 per cent of critical emergency treatment started on time in Campbelltown Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Over the same period, 10 per cent waited over an hour and 19 minutes, just to be transferred from an ambulance to a bed in the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ten per cent spent almost 14 hours in the emergency department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And over 3,000 patients left the emergency ward without receiving treatment altogether \u2013 one in every seven people who turned up for medical help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NSW Labor is calling on the Premier to provide an explanation about the tender while wards remain unused and patients in need of critical care are going untreated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chris Minns, NSW Labor Leader Chris Minns said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt says so much about this Premier and this Government that they are more interested in creating fictional treatments, than actually treating patients in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is outrageous. This isn\u2019t Grey\u2018s Anatomy, it\u2019s a real hospital with sick people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n \u201cBecause of chronic mismanagement, these wards are being used as movie sets rather than delivering treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDominic Perrottet should be focused on fixing the hospital not filming it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ryan Park, NSW Shadow Minister for Health said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe people of Campbelltown and south west Sydney have every right to be frustrated and angry at a Government more interested in stunts than delivering the health services residents need and deserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShiny new wards without appropriate staffing will do nothing to solve the health crisis caused by 12 years of understaffing and underfunding our hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf you were one of the three thousand patients who left the hospital untreated, or if you\u2019re one of their friends or family, you\u2019d be outraged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDespite a hospital crisis across NSW, Dominic Perrottet seems to be more interested in being a director than a Premier.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unused wards at Campbelltown Hospital were tendered out to film studios by the NSW Liberals and Nationals, documents obtained by NSW Labor have revealed. The proposed tender details said, \u201cCampbelltown Hospital has vacant\/unused wards that can be used for filming for TV\/Ads\/Movies and other similar such mediums.\u201d The revelations come at a time when the state\u2019s … Continue reading “Lights, Camera, No Traction \u2013\u00a0Perrottet’s Hospital Flop”<\/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-19466","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\/19466","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=19466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19467,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19466\/revisions\/19467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}