{"id":80944,"date":"2024-07-06T09:53:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T23:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=80944"},"modified":"2024-07-06T09:53:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T23:53:26","slug":"major-hospitals-could-stop-weekend-surgeries-and-extend-christmas-shutdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=80944","title":{"rendered":"Major hospitals could stop weekend surgeries and extend Christmas shutdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Major hospitals could extend Christmas shutdown periods, stop weekend surgeries and close theatres in an effort to meet tough new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/elective-surgeries-beds-at-risk-as-monash-health-struggles-with-crippling-budget-cuts\/news-story\/016610ca73d5798b42e1af8693d101a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">budget expectations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospitals across the state have been asked to make massive savings, some sources have estimated at more than $1bn, with cost saving models now under assessment by the state government who will finalise budgets in coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaked details from those cost saving submissions reveal hospitals have put the government on notice that they could be forced to slash frontline services including stripping back surgeries and extending a standard two-week Christmas shutdown from two weeks to six weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health sources said such initiatives would wreak havoc with hospital waiting lists and cause significant delays for some surgeries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has also been warned that demanding such significant savings, which have been estimated between 10 and 40 per cent in some instances, would force widespread bed closures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extract HS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major hospitals could extend Christmas shutdown periods, stop weekend surgeries and close theatres in an effort to meet tough new\u00a0budget expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":80945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[8,8832,8751],"class_list":["post-80944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-victoria","tag-victorian-budget-2024","tag-victorian-government"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80946,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80944\/revisions\/80946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}