Tag Archives: Royal Adelaide Hospital

Anzac inspired thoughts about the cost of war.

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Kenneth Robson

On Anzac Day Australians and New Zealanders grieve for those they knew, and the millions they did not know, most still in their youth, killed in combat, not just at Anzac Cove in Turkey on the 25th April 1915, but … Continue reading →

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The new Royal Adelaide Hospital we had to have! Time to have a check-up on what is planned!

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Kenneth Robson

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/state-government-has-no-budget-to-demolish-royal-adelaide-hospital/story-e6frea83-1226594980271 A political, not a medical agenda It is hard to escape the conclusion that the New Royal Adelaide Hospital now under construction is more a big-noting political statement than a necessary expansion of the State’s medical program. The promotional … Continue reading →

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The Losing Alternative Vision for the Royal Adelaide Hospital

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Kenneth Robson

  Prior to the 2010 election the SA Liberal party put an alternative plan for re-development of the Royal Adelaide Hospital on its present site next to the Medical School, University of Adelaide, IMVS, and the Hanson Research Institute. The University … Continue reading →

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The New Royal Adelaide Hospital – A cancer of the coffers! What will be the cost of palliative surgery?

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Kenneth Robson

    Picture: Chris Mangan, Adelaide Now, January 14 The visionary new Royal Adelaide Hospital, designed to set an unparalleled standard of excellence in medical facility and care for South Australian public patients, is already becoming an imposing structure in … Continue reading →

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Progress on the re-location of the Royal Adelaide Hospital

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Kenneth Robson

Progress on the re-location of the Royal Adelaide Hospital http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/full-royal-adelaide-hospital-cost-to-be-revealed/story-e6frea83-1226070057216 Health Minister John Hill launched construction of the visionary new Royal Adelaide Hospital and South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), June 7, 2011. The SA Health Partnership Consortium, a … Continue reading →

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Governments that don’t listen don’t last

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Kenneth Robson

Comment based on articles by Alice Higgins, The Advertiser, Dec 26, 2012, and Adelaide Now, Jan 5 2013. We expect elected governments to be visionary but practical; pro creative-development but safe-guarding of irreplaceable heritage items; heeding of public opinion, but … Continue reading →

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