Tumut residents present GSAH with list of demands. Tumut meeting on health sets goals. Tumut residents call for action on new hospital.

TWO plans addressing a broad range of health services and issues, including a call for a decision on when Tumut might see a new hospital, were presented to a public meeting last night.

Chairman of the Tumut Local Government Area Health Service Planning Committee, Allan Tonkin said the two plans, one the GSAHS final service plan and the other an implementation plan describe the current level of health service delivery in the Tumut area very well.

"One of the express aims of the plan is that a complete re-development of the Tumut health service be included in the NSW Capital works program with planning to commence as soon as possible," Mr Tonkin said.

"We are calling for a firm commitment from NSW Health by June 2006."

Mr Tonkin said the Planning Committee has acted on claims put forward at the September meeting that the service plan's strategies were vague.

"We received five submissions and took recommendations from the plan and created an action plan, a support document, which will cover the first three years of the health service plan," Mr Tonkin said.

"We have taken all the recommendations and have added an action column, a responsible person column, a timeframe and a desired outcome.

"We put in realistic timeframes and will review them on a regular basis."

Action on Tumut health: Health service manager Mary Smit and chairman of the Tumut Local Government Area Health Service Planning Committee, Allan Tonkin, present the final Tumut Service and Implementation Plans to a meeting of more than 70 people last night.

The Daily Advertiser

Wagga Wagga

Friday November 4 2005