Call to shift elderly
By
SARAH SANDS
Private hospitals in Christchurch could help the Canterbury Hospital Board cut spending by taking more elderly patients out of public beds, said the administrator of Parklands Hospital, Mr Bill Pearce, yesterday. He was responding to a statement by the board that it might have to close wards and reduce services to achieve a saving of $l5 million.
Mr Pearce said he had argued for months that the public health sector should release more
elderly patients into private hospital care. Several hospital boards were already doing this. “It seems ridiculous that while we are being frustrated by a shortage of patients through unrealistic subsidies and often inappropriate referrals, there is talk of public wards being forced to close.
“It would make good sense both economically and in healthcare terms if more elderly patients were released from public hospital beds and transferred to the private sector,” he said.
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