AAP General News (Australia)
12-05-2010
NSW:Govt denies doctors pushed to work more
New South Wales Premier KRISTINA KENEALLY has denied doctors are being pushed to work
extra shifts to cut elective surgery waiting lists .. ahead of the March state election.
She's denied a Sunday Telegraph report in which the AMA says public hospitals are pressuring
surgeons to work weekends and additional shifts to reduce waiting times.
Ms KENEALLY says New South Wales exceeded its surgery targets between July and December
last year .. and she's been advised by NSW Health that there's no such directive in place.
She says her government signed up in 2007 to the Commonwealth's elective surgery waiting
list reduction plan.
Opposition health spokeswoman JILLIAN SKINNER says the government's trying to distort
hospital waiting figures in the run up to the state election.
AAP RTV ih/ajw/
KEYWORD: HOSPITALS NSW (SYDNEY)
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