THE long-awaited report from the rural health inquiry following 21 months of investigation has been met with responses from stakeholders across NSW, all calling for action to be taken on the obvious and long standing issues brought to light by the Senate Inquiry.
According to Chair of the committee Greg Donnelly the inquiry - which received 720 submissions and held 15 public hearings - heard stories of ‘emergency departments with no doctors; of patients being looked after by cooks and cleaners; of excessive wait times for treatment; and of misdiagnoses and medical errors’.
The damning evidence . . .
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