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Life & Style NSW HEALTH MINISTER JILLIAN SKINNER (PICTURED LEFT) HAS BLAMED HUMAN ERROR FOR AN ACCOUNTING ERROR AT NEPEAN HOSPITAL. INSET: THE LATE NEVILLE WOODBRIDGE
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he health system is facing more criticism in relation to how it deals with administration issues after a local woman received a bill for her husband’s medical treatment 18 months after he passed away. In July of 2010 Isabel Woodbridge lost her beloved husband Neville to his battle with mesothelioma, an aggressive lung cancer caused by asbestos exposure.
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But the wound of losing her life partner was reopened when Mrs Woodbridge received a medical bill for her husband’s treatment at Nepean Hospital some 18 months after his passing. Mr Woodbridge had intense chemotherapy to treat tumours in his lungs caused by working as an electrician on Naval ships containing asbestos. “When he was being treated for the cancer we would always tell reception at the hospital that the bill was to be forwarded to the Dust Diseases Board, but we would still get them in the mail sometimes and I would tear them up,” Mrs Woodbridge told the Weekender this week.
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After 18 months of grieving, it was a complete shock to Mrs Woodbridge when she opened her mail recently to fi nd the bill dated from mid-2010. “Just over a week ago I received a bill in the mail, even though he is no longer with us, which was very, very disturbing and traumatic because the family is still in grieving,” she said. “I called the hospital and was transferred there to there to there before they said ‘you will have to fi x it’. And I said, ‘no you fi x it’, it was very upsetting. “We always received excellent treatment at the hospital but there is defi nitely something wrong in their accounting section.” Continues on Page 8
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