North Coast Area Health Service problems continue

With the Lower Clarence Valley fighting to stave off sale and rezoning of North Coast Area Health Service land adjoining Maclean District Hospital, word on the street is that the Service's financial problems under CEO Chris Crawford are now intractable.
Apparently its media people are sounding increasingly nervous when fielding queries and, many local residents are beginning to fear that a large-scale downgrading or even elimination of smaller district hospitals may be on the Rees-Della Bosca agenda down in Macquarie Street.
Once again the Northern Rivers may be seen as expendable due to another NSW Dept. of Health budget blow-out.