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

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing, Senator Ludwig. I refer to the Prime Minister’s promise to fix our public hospitals by mid-2009 and his promise on 21 October 2007 that when it came to the state of the nation’s health system the buck stops with him. What has the Prime Minister done to address the dire shortage of medical specialists in western New South Wales, amongst others, particularly in the regional centre of Dubbo? What has the minister done to fix the Wagga Wagga Base Hospital and what has the minister done to address the already desperately overstretched Port Macquarie hospital?