Bathurst Hospital (left); Bathurst Physiotherapy, which moved from the CBD to Mitre Street in 2020 (middle); and the relocated ambulance station (right) are all within a short distance of each other.
RE: We Have An Emerging Health Precinct, So Why Have Facilities Elsewhere? (opinion, August 16).
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I support the co-location of both public and private health services.
The early proposal of building a private health facility on top of the RSL car park, away from any other health service, seems very impractical.
There is, in the current health precinct, council-owned land which could be rezoned to accommodate a private health facility, thus supporting a number of issues outlined in the Western Advocate article.