Comments on: Awash with cash, but only a little to spend http://hourann.com/blog/2007/09/26/awash-with-cash-but-only-a-little-to-spend Hourann’s illogical blog Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:56:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: azza-bazoo http://hourann.com/blog/2007/09/26/awash-with-cash-but-only-a-little-to-spend/comment-page-1#comment-13571 azza-bazoo Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:24:46 +0000 http://hourann.com/blog/2007/09/26/awash-with-cash-but-only-a-little-to-spend#comment-13571 The recommendations of the <a href="http://www.health.wa.gov.au/HRIT/publications/" rel="nofollow">Reid report</a> (which I'm not sure I trust, but they're being followed anyway) were to downgrade Fremantle and Royal Perth and replace them with an upgraded Charles Gairdner and a <a href="http://www.fionastanley.health.wa.gov.au/about/index.cfm" rel="nofollow">new hospital at Murdoch</a>, which'll sit alongside St John of God rather like how SCGH sits alongside Hollywood Hospital. The lure of the site, I believe, was in being next to a university (which still can't get Federal approval to run a medicine course) as well as next to a train station. Ever since it was announced, the Health Minister has been pointing to it as the prime example of Awesome Things Being Done For Health In WA, or something like that. The recommendations of the Reid report (which I’m not sure I trust, but they’re being followed anyway) were to downgrade Fremantle and Royal Perth and replace them with an upgraded Charles Gairdner and a new hospital at Murdoch, which’ll sit alongside St John of God rather like how SCGH sits alongside Hollywood Hospital.

The lure of the site, I believe, was in being next to a university (which still can’t get Federal approval to run a medicine course) as well as next to a train station. Ever since it was announced, the Health Minister has been pointing to it as the prime example of Awesome Things Being Done For Health In WA, or something like that.

]]> By: Thia http://hourann.com/blog/2007/09/26/awash-with-cash-but-only-a-little-to-spend/comment-page-1#comment-13561 Thia Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:24:33 +0000 http://hourann.com/blog/2007/09/26/awash-with-cash-but-only-a-little-to-spend#comment-13561 Hang on.... why are we building a new hospital in Murdoch? St J is there already and yes, ok, it's a private hospital, but wouldn't it make more sense to put a hospital somewhere where we don't already have one? Not to mention that Freo isn't that far away. Hang on…. why are we building a new hospital in Murdoch? St J is there already and yes, ok, it’s a private hospital, but wouldn’t it make more sense to put a hospital somewhere where we don’t already have one? Not to mention that Freo isn’t that far away.

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