Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator Ludwig. Is the minister aware that doctors at the Murwillumbah and Tweed hospitals on the New South Wales North Coast are in open revolt against government cutbacks of services at the hospitals? Given that the doctors now say that Tweed Hospital is unsafe for patients, and given that the local federal Labor MP was re-elected on the promise that ‘Kevin Rudd will fix our hospitals’ and ‘We will end the blame game’, will the minister intervene in the Tweed Hospital’s crisis before patients die unnecessarily?