Parra News August 31 2021

Westmead Private
joins COVID battle
NICOLA BARTON
Westmead Private Hospital
is joining the fight
against COVID-19, as
staff are deployed to assist the
NSW Government’s response to
the current outbreak.
Private hospital staff will help
support the large-scale vaccination
effort currently underway and
support workforce demands in the
NSW public health system.
A number of private hospitals
across Greater Sydney including
the Blue Mountains, Central Coast
and Wollongong are putting their
hands up to assist where possible.
As a result, non-urgent elective
surgery is being temporarily
postponed at participating private
hospitals.
All emergency surgery and urgent
elective surgery will continue to be
performed during this challenging
period and people who require
emergency surgery will still have
access to it.
A NSW Health spokesperson
said it acknowledges the critical
importance of private hospitals in
delivering timely and high-quality
care for our communities and
thanks them for their ongoing
partnership in responding to the
current pandemic.
“These private hospitals have
been conducting additional elective
surgery on behalf of the public
health system for patients who had
their non-urgent elective surgery
postponed in 2020, following a
National Cabinet decision,” the
spokesperson said.
“Ensuring adequate system
capacity as well as patient, staff and
public safety will be key factors in
the delivery of healthcare services
during this time.
“Patients due to receive nonurgent
elective surgery impacted
by these changes are being
contacted and encouraged to
seek medical attention should
they experience a change in their
condition so they can be reviewed
and re-prioritised to a more urgent
category if required.”
Westmead Private Hospital
LOCAL NEWS
Clinical Nurse Educator Kay
Downie, who assisted at the Year
12 vaccination rollout said it’s
important for both private and
public healthcare to work together
to combat the virus that has devastated
so many.
“I worked in the post-vaccine
observation area and was team
leader for any medical emergencies,”
she said.
“I’m so proud of the thousands
of teenagers doing their bit to help
protect the people of NSW, and
amazed at NSW’s ability to pull
together a mass vaccination centre
in five days.
“It’s great to see such collaboration
from both private and public
sectors across all healthcare
disciplines.
“After seeing both sides of the
fight – vaccination and Special
Health Accommodation quarantine
– it’s very clear that the
COVID-19 situation is rapidly
escalating here in NSW and I
encourage all with the ability to do
so to help out in any way they can
and get vaccinated!”
Clinical Nurse Educator at Westmead Private Hospital Kay
Downie is helping in the COVID-19 battle.
parra news » Tuesday, August 31, 2021
PUBLIC EXHIBITION
Draft Parramatta CBD Local Infrastructure Contributions Plan 2021
City of Parramatta Council is exhibiting the
Draft Parramatta CBD Local Infrastructure
Contributions Plan 2021 (the ‘Draft Plan’).
The Draft Plan will apply to all land in
the Parramatta CBD and will replace
the existing Contributions Plan that
currently applies.
The Draft Plan authorises Council to collect
contributions of money, land or both from
developers to provide for local infrastructure
needed by the relevant development.
The local infrastructure to be provided by
contributions under the Draft Plan would
include, for example, land and works for
open space and recreation, community
facilities, and traffic and transport works.
Public Exhibition of the Draft Plan
commenced on Monday 9 August and
concludes on Monday 20 September 2021.
The Draft Plan and the land where the plan
will apply (Refer to Figure 2 of the plan)
can be viewed during the exhibition
period at Council’s website:
participate.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/
cbd-contributions-plan
Due to Covid-19 restrictions and the
ongoing lockdown the exhibition material
cannot be accessed at Council’s Customer
Contact Centre or Parramatta CBD Library.
For further information, please contact
David Hewetson, Project Officer Land Use
Planning on 9806 5979 or by email at
dhewetson@cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au
HAVE YOUR SAY – Public Exhibition
ends soon.
Submissions must be received by 5pm on
Monday 20 September 2021 and can be:
• Emailed to: parracbdplanning@
cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au
(with ‘Parra CBD Contributions Plan’
in the subject header); or
• Drafted using Council’s online
submission e-form:
participate.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.
au/cbd-contributions-plan
PN45907
cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au
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