A government report has exposed a healthcare system pushed to breaking point in rural New South Wales.      

In the state’s central and far west, overworked nurses are taking on the roles of doctors, hospitals don’t have enough free beds, and vulnerable children aren’t getting the specialist care they need.  

Today our guest is Jordyn Beazley, The Citizen’s former cadet journalist. She used a grant from the Michael Gordon Foundation to investigate this crisis. In a three-part collaboration between The Citizen and The Guardian, she reported on the rural communities hit hardest.  

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