The Hospital with too many Sick People | The West Report

by Michael West | May 14, 2025 | The West Report

A public hospital sold off to a private operator, controlled in the Cayman Islands, and now, after years of cost-cutting, legal threats, and a damning Auditor General’s report, the NSW public is likely to get it back. #auspol

This is the story of Northern Beaches Hospital, a flagship for the “public, private partnership” model that promised efficiency and delivered conflicts and controversy. This is a morality tale for privatisation of essential monopoly assets.

Welcome to healthcare, Cayman Islands style.

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0:00 – Intro: The Hospital That Failed
1:30 – How It Got to Cayman
3:00 – Emergency Data Spike
4:30 – Profits vs Care
6:00 – What the Report Found
7:30 – Staff Cuts & Chaos
9:00 – The $1 Lease Rort
10:30 – Conflict of Interest
12:00 – Impact on Patients
13:30 – Wrap-Up & What’s Next

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Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.

 

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