US EditionNorthern Beaches Hospital Is in Public Hands. Here’s What Happens Next
The NSW Government will pay $190 million to acquire all 494 beds, ending the public/private model after safety concerns and new laws banning private ownership.
- The state reached an in-principle agreement to bring the entire Northern Beaches Hospital into public hands, paying $190 million to take control of all 494 beds.
- The move follows concern after toddler Joe Massa died at Northern Beaches Hospital last year, exposing deficiencies and an Auditor-General report found systemic failures in the emergency department this year.
- NSW Health has already embedded staff at the hospital to begin the transition, but shared facilities and dividing assets create significant challenges between NSW Health and Healthscope.
- The facility will transfer to the Northern Sydney Local Health District by the middle of next year, removing mixed-model uncertainty but raising questions about the hospital's specialist services.
- Premier Chris Minns framed the move as a reversal when he said the government was undoing one of the 'worst decisions' of the previous Coalition government after Northern Beaches Hospital operated under a public/private model since 2018.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Deal struck to bring Northern Beaches Hospital under government control
The in-principle deal means the hospital’s 494 public beds would be integrated back into the public hospital system by mid-2026 after months of negotiations to unpick one of the most complex privatisation arrangements in NSW’s history, NSW government spokespeople said.
NSW Government to take over Northern Beaches Hospital
The New South Wales Government has struck a $190 million deal to buy back Northern Beaches Hospital from private operator Healthscope, bringing the facility back under full public hands by mid 2026. Premier Chris Minns said that his government has “reversed one of the worst decision of any NSW Government, where a private hospital model was foisted on the people of the Northern Beaches.” Under the agreement, the Northern Sydney Local Health Distr…
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