Skinner also pledged a risk assessment of the system, and promised to seek an alternative if the existing software proved inadequate. 'If clinicians are saying this system is putting lives at risk, then we need to halt the roll-out and sit down with frontline health workers and find out how to make it work,' Skinner said. The NSW Shadow Minister for Health, Jillian Skinner today slammed the project, saying that the opposition would halt the roll-out of the system in order to get it right if it won the upcoming election. The New South Wales Opposition today pledged to halt the roll-out of the troubled FirstNet system currently used in hospital emergency departments statewide.Ī review found that the Cerner system suffers from design flaws and botched records management, saying that the issues could lead to a doctor administering the wrong treatment due to mismatched charts.Ī specialist doctors' group said yesterday the system ought to be scrapped due to the danger to patients, thoughts echoed by the state opposition this afternoon.
