NSW to buy back private Northern Beaches hospital for $190m

The NSW health minister, Ryan Park, said the Northern Beaches hospital deal with Healthscope and its receiver was one of the most complex attempted by the state government. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

The NSW government will spend $190m to buy back the Northern Beaches hospital and integrate it into the public hospital system, ending a decade-long experiment in private ownership of a major Sydney hospital.

The NSW health minister, Ryan Park, said the in-principle deal “marks the beginning, not the end, of what will be a change in model of the way in which that hospital works”.