Redundancies proposed by ACL will inevitably result in the service being further downgraded putting patient safety at risk and increasing the OH&S issues for the remaining staff. It’s a disgusting effort by ACL’s management to make such changes over the summer holidays – further risking people’s health and well-being in order to make higher profits. It further highlights what the MSAV has been saying about private providers operating pathology services in public hospitals – it’s not about patient safety; it’s all about profits. Check out what we had to say about it in the Geelong Advertiser below...