Rural Health Inquiry: Patients, professionals slam rural health care system in hundreds of submissions to Parliamentary Inquiry

Andrew Messenger
Updated January 27 2021 - 9:36pm, first published 8:25pm
Health care is 'in decline'
Health care is 'in decline'

A nurse went two years without a formal meal break, in a system dangerously over-reliant on overworked local nursing staff, a parliamentary inquiry into rural and regional healthcare has heard.

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Andrew Messenger

Andrew Messenger

Northern Daily Leader journalist

Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about health, bushfires and occasionally music. I'm a Brisbane boy by way of Charleville and Hobart who now lives in in beautiful New England. Get me at andrew.messenger@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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