A failed experiment: What happens when you let the private sector run a 300-bed public hospital?
Northern Beaches Hospital was meant to be a vision of the future.
“We believe it is best for the patients, staff and the Northern Beaches community that [the hospital] is returned to NSW Health if that is the government’s preferred outcome.”
This is the boss of the private hospital provider Healthscope, Tino La Spina, announcing his desire to end a healthcare experiment 10 years in the making.
