Overview:
• State Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian will not be drawn on whether Maitland’s new hospital will be funded under a Public Private Partnership or PPP.
• The Queensland coroner has reopened an investigation into the death of Timothy Oldham a 22-year-old Brisbane man who committed suicide just days after starting medication to quit smoking.
• Mental health patients in rural and regional areas could wait months to see psychologists because of problems with the Government’s new Primary Health Networks (PHNs), former employees claim.