The NSW Government has announced a $20 million dollar package to boost paediatric services across the state, following ACM's ongoing coverage of a crisis in children's health support in regional areas.
In dozens of stories since April, ACM mastheads, including the Daily Advertiser in Wagga, the Daily Liberal in Dubbo, the Central Western Daily in Orange, the Western Advocate in Bathurst and the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth, revealed children with significant development challenges are being forced to wait up to six years to see a paediatrician in regional NSW.
The average wait time is 18 months in rural areas and in some parts of NSW, families are being told there is no local service at all.
