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Sunday, February 08, 2004
Whistleblower nurse slams Carr
Her colleagues have christened her Erin Brockovich after the legal rights activist made famous by Hollywood - and now Bob Carr knows why.
Whistleblower nurse Nola Fraser has written a scathing eight-page letter to the Premier, demanding a private meeting and a royal commission into the NSW health system.
Ms Fraser described the Government's response to the hospitals crisis as inadequate and ineffective.
NSW has never had so many administrators, independent boards, independent commissions and independent investigative bodies and yet the health system has never been so purulent and terminally diseased. You have taken a good, competent health system, which I was proud to be part of, and in just seven years managed to turn it into something that horror movies are made of.
Ms Fraser described in graphic detail the death of three patients at Campbelltown Hospital. She provides a first-hand account of the treatment the women received, the subject of damning investigations by the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC).
· Sydney Erin Brockovich