The ABC has the grimly familiar news of another cockup in health, this time at the Birth Centre which is turning away 400 women a year despite running at half capacity:
Last year the centre was expanded from three birth suites to five as part of the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
But documents obtained under FOI laws show the new centre has an occupancy rate of less than 50 per cent most days.
The Friends of the Birth Centre says that is because staff numbers have not increased in line with the expansion.