Qld health accused of fudging bed figures on hospital bed counts by more than 730 in NSW
Qld health accused of fudging bed figures on hospital bed counts by more than 730 in NSW
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New South Wales has admitted to „fudging“ hospital beds n코인 카지노umbers when comparing bed counts with official figures.
A federal Department of Health (DOH) report into the health system published on Tuesday found the state’s primary hospital figures did not meet the strict standards required by the Government of Australia, according to the ABC.
The report said the department „was not able to provide consistent data with the bed counts and bed hours reported in various medical publications“ for all 1m카지노9 primary hospitals in the State of NSW.
„The Department has attempted to correct for the ‚fudging‘ in these measures and provided updated figures. In some instances, the Department has reported additional bed counts as well as more accurate figures in some of these areas,“ the report said.
The study found there were between 1,400 and 2,500 excess beds for patients of both sexes and two families at the Western Sydney Hospital in 2012 — the year the figures were released.
Labor called on the State Government to immediately halt the „fudging“ in the public hospital data.
It said the public data used by the Department in its report showed the State health system had over-counted the number of beds at public hospitals.
Senator Chris Back, the ALP’s health spokeswoman, said there was a „serious breach“ in the system.
„If this isn’t a serious breach, how can the Department of Health be seri우리 카지노ous enough to say this is a problem?,“ he said.
„The reason why we need to know why the State Health Board is having this problems with these data and what is actually going on here is because this is just an alarming situation.“
Topics: health, health-administration, government-and-politics, sydney-2000, nsw
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