NSW Coalition and Labor governments, which have allowed healthcare to become a profit-seeking industry, must rethink the public-private partnership model, argues Jim McIlroy.
Northern Beaches Hospital
Health professionals, community groups and the public have been arguing for some time that privatising public hospitals is a health disaster. A parliamentary inquiry has come to the same conclusion, writes Jim McIlroy.
The NSW Coalition government's privatisation of the Northern Beaches Hospital on the city's upper North Shore has created a crisis situation with the cancellation of elective surgery and doctors threatening to strike over staff shortages and lack of vital medical supplies.