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Former NSW auditor-general Tony Harris.

Healthscope’s ills point to unhealthy connection between public patients and private profit

NSW has been privatising government services since the early ’90s. It has cost taxpayers billions.

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Northern Beaches Hospital in Frenchs Forest has been controversial since before it was built.

‘Marred by dysfunction’: Doctors blow whistle as hospital deadline looms

Chronic understaffing and dysfunctional patient record systems at Northern Beaches Hospital have been thrown into the spotlight once again.

  • Angus Thomson and Penry Buckley
Composite image of the Massa family and NSW Health Minister Ryan Park.

‘Would Joe be alive?’ Family demands answers after scathing audit

The Minns government says it is committed to ending its agreement with private operator Healthscope despite rejecting two offers to take the hospital into public hands.

  • Angus Thomson and Kate Aubusson
Northern Beaches Hospital is partly operated by Healthscope.

‘Win for the northern beaches’: Community celebrates as embattled hospital operator flags exit

Taxpayers should not reward Healthscope’s mismanagement of Northern Beaches Hospital with a profit, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said.

  • Angus Thomson and Max Maddison
Leah Pitman, 34, and Dustin Atkinson, 39, have spoken for the first time after losing their baby girl Harper just hours after her birth.

They trusted this hospital to care for their baby. Instead, the unimaginable happened

Leah Pitman and Dustin Atkinson have spoken for the first time after the loss of their baby girl, Harper, just hours after her birth at Northern Beaches Hospital.

  • Angus Thomson
The Northern Beaches Hospital is administered through a public-private partnership between NSW Health and Healthscope.

Baby dies during childbirth in latest Northern Beaches Hospital tragedy

The state’s most senior obstetrician is investigating the death of a newborn after an emergency at the troubled hospital.

  • Angus Thomson
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Danny and Elouise Massa, their son Joe, and NSW Premier Chris Minns.

The changes coming to NSW hospitals after Joe’s death at Northern Beaches Hospital

In an emotional meeting on Wednesday, Premier Chris Minns told Elouise and Danny Massa the government would make a number of changes in response to their son’s death.

  • Angus Thomson and Max Maddison
Elouise and Danny Massa holding a pair of their son Joe’s shoes in his favourite part of the family’s garden in Balgowlah. Their two year old son Joe died at Northern Beaches Hospital after not being treated straight away for hypovolemia. Balgowlah, NSW. February 20, 2025. Photo: Kate Geraghty

‘We let Joe down’: Hospitals told to listen to parents after two-year-old’s death

Health Minister Ryan Park said the death of Joe Massa, 2, at Northern Beaches Hospital was “a result of failing” to listen to the concerns of his parents.

  • Angus Thomson and Nick Newling
Elouise and Danny Massa holding a pair of their son Joe’s shoes in his favourite part of the family’s garden in Balgowlah. Their two year old son Joe died at Northern Beaches Hospital after not being treated straight away for hypovolemia. Balgowlah, NSW. February 20, 2025. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Sydney hospital under fire over death of two-year-old boy

The state’s health minister said the tragedy highlighted grave concerns about the decision to run the hospital under a controversial public-private partnership.

  • Angus Thomson and Nick Newling
Northern Beaches Hospital in Frenchs Forest.

A two-year-old died at this Sydney hospital. It has a troubled history

The tragedy has again thrown the spotlight on Northern Beaches Hospital and the state government’s arrangement with its private operators.

  • Angus Thomson

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