‘We don’t feel it’s safe’: the systemic failures in rural healthcare

• The shortage of healthcare staff puts patients and the community in NSW at risk.
• Nurses and doctors are forced to get rid of their patients to make room for others leading to the failure of the region’s health system.
• The health system fails the health of the rural communities resulting in inferior hospital service access and poorer health outcomes.
• Rural health service under-resourcing and insufficient healthcare workers increase patient transfers from one hospital to another.