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The New South Wales government is planning to take full control of a private-public Sydney hospital following a string of failures. The northern beaches hospital has been operated by private provider Healthscope since it opened in 2018.

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00:00This is a day that two Sydney parents in particular have been waiting for.

00:06Eloise and Danny Massa lost their little boy Joe at the Northern Beaches Hospital.

00:11He'd come to the emergency department limp, suffering a critical lack of fluids after vomiting.

00:17Now Eloise pleaded for him to be put on a drip but that didn't happen fast enough.

00:22There were issues with the triage process, issues with the IT systems and little Joe sadly died.

00:29Now they've been campaigning hard for the hospital to be brought under public control ever since.

00:34We know that Joe's case was not isolated.

00:37We know that there have been systemic failures in the emergency department at Northern Beaches Hospital.

00:45And now today the government is making a monumental step in the right direction to put patient safety at the forefront

00:57and to restore community confidence in our local hospital.

01:03For months the government's been in talks to take control of the hospital.

01:06It's been negotiating with the receivers of Healthscope, the cash strapped private operator,

01:11which has been running the hospital and providing public patients with care under a contract with the state government.

01:17Well today the government's announced that as part of an in-principle agreement,

01:20taxpayers will fork out $190 million to take control of all 494 beds.

01:27And clinical and support staff already employed, they'll be offered jobs with New South Wales Health.

01:32This is a model of healthcare that should never see the light of day again.

01:38This is a failed model.

01:40It fails in relation to the delivery of health services.

01:44It fails in relation to the staff that operate those services.

01:48And it fails community and public expectations.

01:51Many details still need to be worked out.

01:53For example, what sort of private services will still be available to patients who rely on them there on the northern beaches?

02:01And what sort of equipment will Healthscope leave behind in the hospital?

02:05The government says it's still in talks with the private provider to negotiate those details.

02:10But it says if it can't reach a final agreement, it does have the legislative power to take control.

02:16First the government said it's still in talks with one unit.

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