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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

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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
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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Composite image of Healthscope hospitals where nurses and midwives are refusing to perform cleaning duties.

These nurses stopped cleaning. Then the hospital docked their pay

As stacks of dirty linen and hospital waste piled up, seven private hospitals issued their nurses and midwives with a stern warning.

  • Angus Thomson
A damning submission to the Audit Office of NSW by the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation (ASMOF) NSW said dangerously low staffing levels and chronic bed block were putting patients at risk, and doctors’ were growing increasingly frustrated with the operators, Healthscope, and their owners Brookfield

A stroke victim waited hours for a bed. These doctors want answers

Doctors at Northern Beaches Hospital have raised several concerning incidents in their submission to an independent audit of the privately run public hospital.

  • Angus Thomson
Rural Fire Service volunteers watch a bushfire which started near Oxford Falls burn slowly through bushland toward Cromer in Sydney’s northern beaches.

Bushfire downgraded on Sydney’s northern beaches after planned burn jumped containment lines

The Rural Fire Service has lowered the alert level for the blaze which began as a hazard reduction burn in Oxford Falls.

  • Sarah McPhee
Kaushik Chatterjee winning best dressed at a Melbourne Cup Luncheon. He drowned at a remote Sydney beach on Saturday.

Colleagues distraught at drowning of ‘kind-hearted soul’

Kaushik Chatterjee’s death has shocked friends and co-workers after he got into strife at a remote Ku-ring-gai beach.

  • Carrie Fellner

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