New Maitland Hospital has shrunk from an original proposal in 2011

Anita Beaumont
Updated April 14 2021 - 11:45pm, first published September 29 2020 - 5:00am
Ripped off: Rod Doherty outside the new Maitland Hospital construction site at Metford. He said the new plan is a "shadow" of the first proposal. Picture: Simone De Peak
Ripped off: Rod Doherty outside the new Maitland Hospital construction site at Metford. He said the new plan is a "shadow" of the first proposal. Picture: Simone De Peak

THE Maitland community is being "short-changed" on the hospital it was originally promised, says a resident who is questioning whether NSW Health and district bureaucrats are "dumbing down" services at the expense of future generations.

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Anita Beaumont

Anita Beaumont

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Anita Beaumont is a health and general news reporter at the Newcastle Herald.

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