Wellington is being promoted as the perfect place for a public hearing into rural and regional health.
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Dubbo regional mayor Ben Shields has made a submission to the NSW Upper House Inquiry into Health Outcomes and Access to Health and Hospital Services in Rural, Regional and Remote NSW.
In the submission he has suggested that Wellington should host a public hearing because of its central location and doctor crisis.
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"It's not right that the town has just one doctor, who is effectively on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week," Cr Shields said.
"If that doctor is away or sick themselves, what happens then? It is telling that when there is an emergency, someone with even the most basic of injuries is taken to Dubbo or Orange.
"The resources just aren't available in Wellington."
Cr Shields said Wellington would be a "prefect case study" for the Inquiry, with almost all of the terms of reference to be investigated by its seven-member committee relating to the town's health service concerns.
"The terms of reference for the inquiry include a comparison of outcomes for patients living in rural, regional and remote NSW compared to local health districts across metropolitan NSW," he said.
"I bet nobody in metropolitan Sydney has sat in a hospital waiting room for three hours in intense agony before being told there is no doctor available to see them and they would have to drive themselves to a hospital in the next suburb.
"I know that has happened at Wellington."
The inquiry will also look at staffing challenges in regional NSW and strategies employed by NSW Health to address them, which the mayor says is "integral to the future of healthcare in Wellington".
"I really feel the best way for the committee to get a sense of what smaller regional towns are enduring is by scheduling a hearing in Wellington," Cr Shields said.
"All regional cities and towns have some issues with accessing health services but for a town with more than 5000 people to run out of doctors, that is serious."