The NSW Government has been notified of a proposal by Healthscope seeking to have Northern Beaches Hospital returned to the NSW public system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Minns Labor Government has made it clear it does not support public private partnerships being imposed on the state\u2019s acute hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Patients can be assured that there will be no impact on health services at Northern Beaches Hospital while any potential discussions take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Treasurer Daniel Mookhey:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI note the owners of Healthscope are engaged in a market process potentially seeking to exit the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAfter the way Healthscope has managed this partnership, it should not expect to walk away from the Northern Beaches Hospital with a profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe NSW Government will be watching to ensure that no-one is trying to make a windfall gain at the expense of the people of NSW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Government will engage with Healthscope management after questions of its ownership and whether it remains a going concern are resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minister for Health Ryan Park:\u202f\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe have always made clear that we do not support public private partnerships being imposed on our state\u2019s acute hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe will carefully consider any proposal regarding Northern Beaches Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe can assure the community that Northern Beaches Hospital will continue to operate without interruption during any discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NSW Government has been notified of a proposal by Healthscope seeking to have Northern Beaches Hospital returned to the NSW public system. The Minns Labor Government has made it clear it does not support public private partnerships being imposed on the state\u2019s acute hospitals. Patients can be assured that there will be no impact … Continue reading “Northern Beaches Hospital proposal”<\/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-32253","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\/32253","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=32253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32254,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32253\/revisions\/32254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}