Probe after second stillborn cremation error at RNS Hospital morgue

• Kate Aubusson, Harriet Alexander

• September 3, 2016
• The Sydney Morning Herald

For one Sydney family the news that a stillborn baby had been mistakenly cremated left them with a visceral sense of deja vu. They had lived through it three years earlier.

Fairfax Media can reveal that a 20-week stillborn baby boy was cremated in error at the same hospital – Royal North Shore – in late 2012.

Read Kate Aubusson and Harriet Alexander’s full story:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/exclusive-probe-after-second-stillborn-cremation-error-at-rns-hospital-morgue-20160831-gr5itt.html

SYDNEY:  NSW Premier Mike BAIRD claims Health Minister Jillian SKINNER is the “best health minister”.  God help all of us.  He might want to try out one of HER hospitals and see how he fares.

Premier BAIRD claiming he’s saving thousands of dogs’ lives, but doesn’t give a damn for patients being killed and injured in our hospitals.

Both BAIRD and SKINNER are DEAD WRONG!

  NSW Health Minister’s perfect hospital

Patient whose breast ‘exploded’ after implant surgery calls for greater transparency of doctor’s history

ABC News A

Medical reporter Sophie Scott & national reporting team’s Rebecca Armitage

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-10/calls-for-transparency-of-doctors-legal-settlement-history/7704520

MEDIA RELEASE

Monday 8 August 2016

2016.08.08 MEAG MEDIA RELEASE – NSW Health Minister misled Parliament (website)

Yes indeed, New South Wales Health Minister the Honourable Jillian Skinner MP is in her own Emergency Department on life support.

She continues to play “I’m for patients” game.  But her record illustrates a different story.

Minister Skinner said she was doing everything she can to look after the patients caught up in the scandals.

Patients caught up in scandals?  She means she’s caught up in scandals.  The patients are the ones who get injured and killed.  She’s the one waiting to be caught.

NSW Health ‘failed my baby son and then covered up after he died’

• SHARRI MARKSON
• The Australian
• 12:00AM August 5, 2016

Sandra Bernobic watched with disgust as some NSW Health ­officials broke into smiles at the coronial inquiry into the death of her baby boy when a medical expert declared it was likely he would have died even if he had been given antibiotics to treat his meningitis.

READ FULL STORY:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/health/nsw-health-failed-my-baby-son-and-then-covered-up-after-he-died/news-story/518fa46c131deb6445046e130e003b2d

MEAG NOTE:  This is one of the cases the Medical Error Action Group wrote to Health Minister the Hon Jillian Skinner MP repeatedly about, of which she ignored, and misled the NSW Parliament on 3 August 2016. 

The Medical Error Action Group received a letter from NSW Minister for Health the Hon Jillian Skinner MP on 3 August 2016, but only after she read it in Parliament and distributed it to the media.

This is the first correspondence received from the Minister or her Ministry in almost 5 years, which states that ‘each matter has been resolved through correspondence with involved parties which at times may not have included the Medical Error Action Group’.

This is untrue.  The Minister continues to mislead the public.

St Vincent’s Hospital chemo under-dosing scandal spreads to other hospitals

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-03/plan-to-probe-nsw-cancer-chemo-under-dosing-unrealistic:doctor/7684224

NEW SOUTH WALES:  The woman whose husband died after he spent 21 hours undiscovered in a hospital toilet after suffering a stroke has labelled NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner as a “waste of space”.

Her comments follow the latest hospital tragedy which left one newborn baby dead and another with severe disabilities.

As Mrs Skinner faces fresh calls to resign, an incensed Lexie Bugden told Sydney radio 2UE today the Health Minister had never contacted her, nor apologised for her husband’s death.

After hearing broadcasters speak to Mrs Skinner about her response to the death of a newborn baby after a gas mix-up at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital, Mrs Bugden phoned 2UE and let rip.

“She’s a waste of space. She really is,” Mrs Bugden said.

“I reckon that minister’s an absolute liar … they promised us it could never happen again.”

Read more:

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/youre-a-waste-of-space-widow-slams-health-minister-jillian-skinner/news-story/6f0fe1ade5af839c2147e2ed38367bfc

A newborn has died and another has suspected brain damage after nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, was incorrectly administered instead of oxygen at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in Sydney’s south-west.

Read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-25/baby-dies-at-bankstown-lidcombe-hospital-after-oxygen-mix-up/7659552

How governments failed to stop the catastrophic impact of ‘tainted blood’ on thousands of people

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/how-governments-failed-to-stop-the-catastrophic-impact-of-tainted-blood-on-thousands-of-people-20160714-gq602j.html