Cardiac anaesthetists hid ultrasound machines because of shortages at $600 million public hospital
Dr Patrick Coleman says staffing issues were evident before Sydney's Northern Beaches Hospital was opened.
Billed as a state-of-the-art facility, Northern Beaches Hospital had so few ultrasound machines in operating theatres, anaesthetists began hiding them to ensure they had access, doctors have claimed.
In other fresh allegations about the troubled Sydney public hospital built and run by the private sector, senior clinicians have described dangerously low junior doctor staffing numbers, inadequate supervision of registrars and equipment fails.
