Health Whistleblowing
Dr O'Keeffe is a much-loved senior specialist in a range of women's health areas, including gynaecology and obstetrics.
Aug
2018
28
Royal Hobart Hospital
Aug
2018
28
Royal Hobart Hospital – Teaching Accreditation
Last August the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists withdrew accreditation of psychiatric training at the Royal Hobart Hospital.
Aug
2018
28
Health Services – Numbers of Beds
Dr Frank O'Keeffe is a highly regarded specialist who at a press conference yesterday expressed the intense frustrations of clinicians.
Nov
2017
17
Mental Health Unit Rejected
The AMA leaves no room for doubt in their criticism of the Hodgman Liberal government’s plan to steamroll through a new acute mental health facility.
Sep
2017
19
Issues at the Royal Hobart Hospital
In that last six days at the RHH there have been two category 4 escalations, four violent events and all elective surgeries have been cancelled.
Sep
2017
19
Ferguson’s Broken Health System Legacy
Health Ferguson’s parroting of an unusually high influenza season this winter is an insult to the staff and patients at the Royal Hobart Hospital.
Aug
2017
9
Royal Hobart Hospital – Psychiatric Medicine Accreditation
As we have just heard, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry has withdrawn their accreditation status from the Royal Hobart Hospital.
Aug
2017
9
Ferguson’s Failure on Psychiatric Medicine at the RHH
The withdrawal of 2 - 3 training psychiatrists from the staff of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine is a devastating blow to the functioning of the RHH.
May
2017
26
Ferguson’s Band-aid Budget Won’t Prevent RHH Crisis
There is nothing in the State Budget to prevent the imminent winter flu crisis, and subsequent overcrowding, at the Royal Hobart Hospital.
May
2017
18
Coroner Confirms RHH Under-Resourcing Putting Patient Lives at Risk
The Coronial inquest into the 2015 death of a Royal Hobart Hospital patient found it could have been prevented.