Community Rally

On display until 29 March 2025, 05:00 PM

YOUR HEALTH. YOUR FAMILY. YOUR FUTURE.

Join local doctors, nurses, ambulance personnel, allied health professionals, mayors and community advocates in Albury's QEII Square on Saturday 29 March between 10am and 11am as they address our critical healthcare situation.

WHY THE CURRENT ALBURY HOSPITAL REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FALLS SHORT:

  • Inadequate funding of $558 million — services are being cut to fit the budget
  • Drastically reduced capacity — beds and theatres have been slashed from previous plans and won't meet even our current needs, let alone future growth
  • Minimal actual expansion — one ward and two theatres, while maternity services relocate to use the theatres
  • Continued use of dilapidated wards — cramped facilities with limited space for future expansion
  • No increase in critical services — intensive care and maternity remain essentially the same size, with no room for expansion
  • Missing essential facilities — no helipad for time-critical transfers, no paediatric ward, no education facilities due to budget constraints
  • Split healthcare services across two cities remains — continuing the dangerous practice of transferring patients between campuses
  • Current plans will cripple healthcare for a generation — compromising our region's health and economic development

WHY WE NEED A NEW SINGLE SITE HOSPITAL BUILT ON A GREENFIELD SITE:

  • Patient safety at risk — doctors racing between sites for urgent care and patients juggled between facilities
  • Beds consistently exceeding 100% capacity — starting each day 30-70 beds short, leaving patients on ambulance trolleys or unable to have surgeries
  • Waiting lists 3-4 years for essential surgeries — longer than some major tertiary centres
  • Inefficient duplication of services across two hospitals
  • Albury Wodonga Health is Australia's only cross-border health service — a unique situation requiring a proper solution

WHAT WE'RE ADVOCATING FOR:

  1. PAUSE the current redevelopment plans
  2. PROVIDE urgent relief NOW — modular wards and theatres needed immediately; cannot wait another 5 years
  3. RETURN to the original 2021 Clinical Services Plan which recommended a single-site hospital
  4. BUILD IT ONCE, BUILD IT RIGHT — on a new greenfield site

STAND WITH US ON  29 MARCH — ONE HOUR OF YOUR TIME COULD CHANGE HEALTHCARE FOR GENERATIONS.

 

 

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