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Health
Sam McKeith

Controversial hospital on notice after toddler's death

Two-year-old Joe Massa went into cardiac arrest and died at Sydney's Northern Beaches Hospital. (Danny and Elouise Massa/AAP PHOTOS)

The family of a toddler who died in hospital after critical failings in care were "catastrophically let down" by its operator, prompting a pledge to overhaul systems in place under a controversial private-public model.

Two-year-old Joe Massa went into cardiac arrest and died in September after he and his parents waited more than two hours in the emergency department at Sydney's Northern Beaches Hospital.

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