The Wellington and Dubbo hearings of the Inquiry into health outcomes and access to health and hospital services in rural, regional and remote NSW will begin in Wellington on Tuesday.
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In Wellington the inquiry will hear from councillors and staff from the Warrumbungle Shire Council, Bathurst Shire Council, registered nurses from the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association, the Warren Rotary Club, Gulgong Petitioners members as well as eight private citizens.
The hearing will be held at the Hermitage Hill Function Centre from 11am to 4pm.
On Wednesday, the inquiry will hear from a number of people in Dubbo at the RSL Auditorium from 10am to 3.15pm. Speakers include mayors and councillors from Parkes and Warren, Orchre Medical Centre GP, Indidg Connect Owner, Aporiginal Corporation Health Services, Dubbo Regional Aboriginal Medical Service practice manager and GP and two private citizens.
No one from Dubbo Regional Council is listed to speak at either hearing.
The hearing in Wellington on Tuesday comes after 1200 people signed a petition out of concern that the town with a population of almost 10,000 "has only one doctor working at the hospital".
NSW Labor secured the numbers to launch the Health outcomes and access to health and hospital services in rural, regional and remote NSW inquiry in September.
It was prompted by allegations of lives lost or put at risk through dysfunction in public hospitals in places such as Cobar and Dubbo.
More than 600 submissions have been received by the inquiry.
The Dubbo and Wellington hearings will be webcast after a backflip by the committee following flack from media, politicans and lawyers.
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