{"id":32019,"date":"2016-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/professor-blindsided-by-move-to-shutdown-cardiac-services-at-queen-elizabeth-hospital-2\/"},"modified":"2016-05-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T00:00:00","slug":"professor-blindsided-by-move-to-shutdown-cardiac-services-at-queen-elizabeth-hospital-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/professor-blindsided-by-move-to-shutdown-cardiac-services-at-queen-elizabeth-hospital-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor blindsided by move to shutdown cardiac services at QEH"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Prof John Horowitz has revealed to Leon Byner on FIVEAA that he was not contacted by any senior health officials about the plan to shutdown cardiac services at the hospital.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cNo senior member of the Health Commission or the ministry has actually bothered to come and have a chat to me and see why this is a bad decision\u2026 despite invitations on my part,\u201d Prof Horowitz said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the first such meeting was scheduled for next week, \u201cafter they make the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis had been obviously discussed only in political circles.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO PROF JOHN HOROWITZ 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\/266130189&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>\u201cI\u2019ve been well aware that cardiology was, in general, under threat for at least the last couple of years at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital,\u201d Prof Horowitz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this has become progressively more the case as problems of a financial nature have appeared in the health system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had proposed over the previous year to downgrade us, and I felt even that was a gross error on their part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a shortage of money in the health system, this is of course a worldwide problem, but it\u2019s exacerbated as the budget for the new Royal Adelaide Hospital has blown up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/nerves-build-over-josh-jenkins-future-at-adelaide-crows\"><strong>\u201cHE IS GONE\u201d \u2013 NERVES BUILD OVER JENKINS\u2019 FUTURE AT THE CROWS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/coles-feel-the-wrath-of-customers-after-appearing-to-admit-their-milk-is-made-from-powder\"><strong>COLES MAKE A \u201cCONFESSION\u201d ABOUT THEIR MILK, THEN SAY IT WAS A MISTAKE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Prof John Horowitz has revealed to Leon Byner on FIVEAA that he was not contacted by any senior health officials about the plan to shutdown cardiac services at the hospital. \u201cNo senior member of the Health Commission or the ministry has actually bothered to come and have a chat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-32019","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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