Dubbo and western region residents are being reminded that the clock is ticking if they want to participate in a NSW upper house parliamentary inquiry into rural and regional health.
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The closing date for submissions to the "Health outcomes and access to health and hospital services in rural, regional and remote NSW" inquiry has been extended to January 15 from December 13.
The inquiry was prompted by allegations of lives lost or put at risk through dysfunction in hospitals including Dubbo Hospital.
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NSW Labor secured the numbers for the inquiry in September last year with its spokesman on health Ryan Park this week declaring there were "too many harrowing and tragic stories of families losing loved ones".
"I am now more determined than ever to shine a spotlight on the health care of residents living outside the major metropolitan cities in NSW," he said.
"This inquiry needs to hear from real people. It needs to hear from nurses, doctors, allied health professionals and importantly it needs to hear from patients and their families."
The inquiry's committee includes chair, Labor's Greg Donnelly, and deputy chair, the Animal Justice Party's Emma Hurst.
This inquiry needs to hear from real people. It needs to hear from nurses, doctors, allied health professionals and importantly it needs to hear from patients and their families.
- NSW opposition spokesman on health Ryan Park
Committee members are the Liberal Party's Louis Amato and Natasha Maclaren-Jones, the Nationals' Wes Fang, Labor's Walt Secord and the Greens' Cate Faehrmann.
Hearings will be held this year.
Visit www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/inquiries/Pages/lodge-a-submission.aspx?pk=2615 to make a submission.
The inquiry will not be conducting investigations or reviews of individual cases which can be raised with the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission .