NSW: Financial audit finds NSW health system wanting

AAP General News (Australia)
12-16-2009
NSW: Financial audit finds NSW health system wanting

The NSW opposition says if the state health system was a business it would quickly go under.

A financial audit by NSW Auditor-General PETER ACHTERSTRAAT has reported a litany of
problems within the system .. such as area health services struggling to pay their creditors
on time .. and complaints rising 23 per cent since the 2007-08 financial year.

Opposition health spokeswoman JILLIAN SKINNER says medical professionals are carrying
on under Labor's rank incompetence .. and it's only their goodwill that's holding the
system together.

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KEYWORD: HEALTH NSW (SYDNEY)

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