{"id":16125,"date":"2017-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/nurses-urged-to-take-action-over-appalling-hospital-closures\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T00:00:00","slug":"nurses-urged-to-take-action-over-appalling-hospital-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/nurses-urged-to-take-action-over-appalling-hospital-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurses urged to TAKE ACTION over \u201cappalling\u201d hospital closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A top SA professor has delivered nurses a stunning call-to-arms over \u201cappalling\u201d hospital closures.<\/h3>\n<p>Professor Elizabeth Dabars from the nursing and midwifery union said planned closures at Adelaide hospitals &#8212; including the RAH, QEH and possibly Flinders &#8212; would compromise care and result in \u201cmore deaths amongst patients\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is that those closures are just fundamentally unsafe for patient care. We\u2019re very concerned,\u201d Prof Dabars told FIVEAA brekkie on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>She said nurses had certain \u201cprofessional obligations and responsibilities\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time to stand up and stop this ridiculous state of affairs,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s just not reasonable\u2026 we\u2019re not going to stand for it. We will be recommending that nurses take action.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/303249600&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She said the government\u2019s Transforming Health plan had degenerated into a cost-cutting exercise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransforming Health had sound principles &#8212; the issue now is that the execution is appalling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think that the issue has become one of cost cutting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears to us that treasury has just come in and said, look, you\u2019ve got to makes the savings that you promised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the problem is that they haven\u2019t actually achieved the efficiencies that they were saying that they would under Transforming Health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation would recommend&nbsp;members take \u201caction that is reasonable\u201d to&nbsp;protest the closures, and didn\u2019t rule out stopping work, which she said would&nbsp;be discussed.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/bazz-and-pilko-together-again\"><strong>BAZZ AND PILKO REUNITED ON FIVEAA &#8212; AND IT WAS TOTAL CHAOS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/matty-nicks-slams-it-in-reverse-on-fiveaa\"><strong>PORT ADELAIDE ASSISTANT SLAMS IT IN REVERSE LIVE ON FIVEAA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top SA professor has delivered nurses a stunning call-to-arms over \u201cappalling\u201d hospital closures. Professor Elizabeth Dabars from the nursing and midwifery union said planned closures at Adelaide hospitals &#8212; including the RAH, QEH and possibly Flinders &#8212; would compromise care and result in \u201cmore deaths amongst patients\u201d. \u201cThe bottom line is that those closures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-16125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nurses urged to TAKE ACTION over \u201cappalling\u201d hospital closures - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/nurses-urged-to-take-action-over-appalling-hospital-closures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nurses urged to TAKE ACTION over \u201cappalling\u201d hospital closures\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A top SA professor has delivered nurses a stunning call-to-arms over \u201cappalling\u201d hospital closures. 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