{"id":30781,"date":"2016-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/premier-defends-health-dept-after-drug-bungle\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T00:00:00","slug":"premier-defends-health-dept-after-drug-bungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/premier-defends-health-dept-after-drug-bungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier defends Health Dept &#8212; \u201cSA is up the top of the tree\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Premier Jay Weatherill has defended the state\u2019s health department after the news broke about a chemotherapy patient who was turned away from Lyell McEwin hospital because it was out of chemo medicine.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m advised the way in which chemotherapy is constructed there are dedicated, specific sets of medicines for the particular patient,\u201d Mr Weatherill told FIVEAA\u2019s Leon Byner on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difficulty here wasn\u2019t so much the medicine not being held, because there are no generalised stocks held. It\u2019s very specific. It\u2019s that there was a scheduling error.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe person was booked at a time that the medicine wasn\u2019t organised for.\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\/278283981&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>As well as the snubbed chemo patient, there are reports the Lyell McEwin routinely runs out of vital drugs and medication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn relation to having stock standing by, it\u2019s really just a question about the efficient management of our stocktaking,\u201d Mr Weatherill said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore generally, I think there\u2019s been some awful things happen in this area of chemotherapy, for which we\u2019ve apologised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the premier told listeners to remember that the system delivers a couple of million \u201cepisodes of care\u201d every year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have one of the world\u2019s best health care systems in this country, and South Australia is up the top of the tree in terms of its performance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile there are things that go wrong, we have many fine clinicians that do a wonderful job caring for people every day of the week.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR RIGHT NOW<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/port-adelaide-star-negotiating-a-new-deal\"><strong>POWER STAR NEGOTIATIONG A NEW DEAL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/penbo-s-sheepish-apology-to-the-police-commissioner\"><strong>POLICE COMMISSIONER PULLS PENBO INTO LINE ON FIVEAA BREAKFAST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Premier Jay Weatherill has defended the state\u2019s health department after the news broke about a chemotherapy patient who was turned away from Lyell McEwin hospital because it was out of chemo medicine. \u201cI\u2019m advised the way in which chemotherapy is constructed there are dedicated, specific sets of medicines for the particular patient,\u201d Mr Weatherill told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6609,"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":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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