Two-year-old Joe Massa died after emergency department wait at Northern Beaches hospital in September 2024
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NSW is expected to ban future privatisation of public acute hospitals, with the state government announcing “Joe’s law” on Thursday, named for the two-year-old who died at the Northern Beaches hospital.
Joe Massa suffered a cardiac arrest and died in September after waiting three hours in the emergency department operated by private hospital provider Healthscope in a public-private partnership (PPP).
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