The University News, Vol. 12, No. 13, August 4-18, 1986
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Volume 12, Number 13, August 4 to August 18,1986 New teaching hospital to cost $140 million Following the release of detailed The new hospital will cater for on site works. ''The best feature of the new design drawings and good progress approximately 18,000 inpatients per annum hospital is that it has been totally planned. on the car park and the earth and provide a total of 55,000 square metres We will probably have the only works, tenders have been called for of floor space (this compares with 72,000 regionalised planned service in the State", the State Government's new square metres in the new Parliament House he said. 490-bed teaching hospital for the in Canberra). The hospital is the major construction Greater Newcastle Area. Teaching and research activities and item in the Strategic Plan for the Provision The hospital at Rankin Park will be a accommodation for academic, visiting and of Health Services in the Hunter Region major teaching hospital for undergraduate full-time staff will be integrated within the proposed by the former Regional Director and postgraduate students of Medicine from areas used for patient-care. An educational of Health, Dr Geoffrey Olsen, in 1983. the University. student nurses and students complex, providing lecture and tutorial Indeed, it is the biggest hospital being built of para-medical subjects from the Newcastle rooms and students services, is to be built in Australia. Dr. Olsen's plan envisaged an CAE, and staff of the NSW Department of in conjunction with the Administration integrated hospital network for the Greater Health. Building. Newcastle Area which avoided replication of Each hospital in the Greater Newcastle The size and cost of the proposed services. Area will have a special clinical role: hospital makes it the biggest capital works The Public Works Department is the academic facilities will be provided to health project in progress in New South Construction Authority for the teaelling match. Wales. In a recent press interview the hospital and Mr Tom Lindsay, the Project The new teaching hospital will be the Regional Director of Health, Dr. O. James, Director, leads a team of Department of regional centre for Paediatrics, Obstetrics, said that $10 million had already been spent Health Office,.. Anatomical Pathology and most major sub-clinical specialties in Medicine and Surgery. Therefore, it will also be the academic base for the Chairs of Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Anatomical Pathology, Medicine and Surgery. The hospital will also be the centre for new programmes reflecting the Government's concern for the incidence of sexual assaults and a cardiac catheterisation unit for complex investigation of heart disease. At Rankin Park, on a tranquil bushland site on a hill adjacent to the Lookout Road, huge earthmovers are continuing with the site works for the teaching hospital, with the carpark and the ring road very nearly A model ofthe Newcastle's new teaching hospital- the biggest hospital completed. being built in Australia. Inside: Glennie retires after 22 years 2 Only 50 acres of the 330-acre site will of Sydney, and the Flinders Medical Centre . Library, the Gardner Library, but a be occupied by the teaching hospital. in Adelaide. SUb-component would be shifted to the new "We're retaining trees wherever possible", 'Inc !Jean of the Faculty of Medicine, teaching hospital. Professor John Hamilton. said it had been Mr Lindsay said, referring to the cazpark and Professor Hamilton said the hospital the ring road. "At the same time we're agreed to give up some space in the David was a major resource for the Hunter Region replanting trees when we have finished Maddison Clinical Sciences Building at the and a major opportunity for the University some of our work", Royal Newcastle Hospital to the to contribute to the welfare of the Mr Lindsay said the only modem Department of Health as an exchange for community. Development of the design equivalents of the hospital in Australia. in the educational and academic space and and provision of the hospital itself, as well facilities in the teaching hospital. The tenns of the integration of in-patient care, as the running of its services, would be a teaching and research facilities, were the Region Medical Communication Unit model of how the functions of a University would remain in the David Maddison Westmead Hospital in the Western Suburbs and the delivery of health services could be Building. So, too, would the Regional integrated. I still believe, maybe naively, that this already great and obviousiy needs University is a vehicle of perpetuating expanding from the point of view of our knowledge towards self-realisation and self involvement in Asia. improvement for the benefit of all UFE on We earnestly urge that every EARTH and the UNIVERSE. consideration be given to retaining the I believe that a Council committee course offered as History IID/IIID - History A year ago I talked to Phil Alexander about should be set up to develop a course outline of China and Japan - on a permanent basis the introduction of "Peace Studies" and he and oversee the introduction of "Peace through the appointment of a tenured advised me to go and see the different heads Studies" at this University. I therefore lecturer and that no less consideration be of departments and deans of faculties. In hope that you will support a motion to do given to the addition, as soon as possible, my naivete I started ou~ only to fmd that this at the next meeting of Council. of courses in other Asian languages and the conservative, hiearchical structure of Wishing you and all piople a more literature, such as Chinese. this University stifled any attempt to peaceful co-existence with all life-form. consider the greatest challenge of our time. Pat Burke and 29 Studenls Most paid staff I talked to were too worried Meta McBeth about their jobs to risk to rattle and change Studenls For Peace the rigid and narrow outlook of this Reference Margaret Heruy's most timely institution. Many Doctors and Professors . We are concerned at the present position of letter of July 21st. are so wrapped up in their own little world the History course - History IID/lIID, The As a disabled student (back problems) of special knowledge that they fail to realise History of China and Japan - which is attempting to gather some knowledge in their own responsibility to contribute more currently being run on the basis of a one conditions which would probably make the effectively toward World Peace. year non-renewable contract. It would inquisition's dungeons appear sumptuous Unless Newcastle University sets up a appear that the University is intent on by comparison, I can only say it's about survival orientated. realistic programme, it ignoring the fact that Australia is part of time this problem was aired publicly. does not deserve the logo '1 Look Ahead". Asia and, economically, is within the While the conditions as described are Each student, of all faculties should have a sphere of influence of China and Japan. not the norm. they are still found in choice of Peace orientated studied with The University has pretentions of sufficient numbers to affect a great many credits. Other Universities and institutions offering courses in Asian Studies which people. of higher learning all over the world have virtually consists. of only three courses of Contrary to what some may think a included a variety of Peace studies and you study that are wholly Asian in content: frozen bum and aching back does not help only need to link up with them to consider Japanese I, IIA, IDA, IIIB; History with concentration. Granted, funds may be and choose the most progressive plans. IIA/lIIA, History of India in short supply at the moment and with the I feel, unless we stimulate and History IID/IIID, History of "Pacific Peso" in the state it's in just now, encourage the necessary study of Project China and Japan; they may be even shorter in future but this PEACE ON EARTH as Top Priority, we and which are supported by other courses does not mean that students should be are not using our accumulated knowledge such as Economics, Economic History and treated as the poor cousins in the annual and inteIIigence in the most positive Geography which have some Asian content dole out of foods. manner. but which cannot be claimed validly to be The reason for this or any university's The misuse of the sciences in the quest Asian Studies in intent. existence is not just to give clerical staff for world domination has left us stranded If, therefore, History IID/IIID is etc. and academics employment, its to with weapons that are obsole~, it not used, eliminated from the cuniculwn, this reduces instruct and nurture ideas in students and and total annihilation if used. The by one third the number of actual studies of that can't be accomplished if the students poisoning of our environment and the purely Asian nature and content available are so Wlcomfortable they can't concentrate. neglect of the people's health sector is through this University. This would be So I suppose its a matter of priorities. criminal. The necessary money needed for most unsatisfactory and undesirable for a Where the money should be allocated to SURVIVAL of UFE on Planet Earth is Univeristy in a country in such close my mind is towards the defrosting of numb convened into more and more weapons of proximity to Asia and which also enjoys bums and the allocation and installation of destruction. It is absolute lunacy to keep the advantages of attracting a large number orthopaedically designed seating and desks .