Private Hospital, Camperdown

Private hospitals hurt the public system by poaching doctors and nurses, worsening public sector staffing shortages. They cherry-pick profitable, low-risk elective surgeries, leaving public hospitals to shoulder the financial burden of complex, costly chronic conditions and emergency care. They claim grants from governments that would otherwise go to public hospitals and push us towards a system with two tiers of service; where you have money and are treated well, or don't and aren't.

I support the project.

Camperdown is already home to many medical facilities. It is also an increasingly unaffordable area for families to live. Building a massive private hospital will only serve to further divert attention and funding from the existing public hospital while caring only for those who can afford the cost of private care.
We do not need more private medical infrastructure. Especially not here. We need more funding and better pay for the incredible existing public hospital, which treats the community as a whole.
And if there happens to be enough spare land for a 14 story building in this area it would be far better utilised as a means to increase the availability of housing, which is sorely lacking.

Even though the USyd colleges are disliked by the lot for their activities and what they stand for, they are part of the university community and space. If the project is to be done on the proposed land, it would heavily diminish the students’ free space that they use to express themselves (e.g. sports, arts, community gatherings…). Considering that the construction would take a while and close up strategic roads and pathways, the route to the campus for residents of Queen Mary Building will at least get 10 minutes longer. I don’t think any resident would be pleased by the noise during their finals or paying such a high rent to have to leave their “on-campus accommodation” at least 30 minutes early to catch their lectures.

I'm a student at the Queen Mary Building, which is a University of Sydney residence housing over 800 students. This construction would cause an immense amount of noise and would disrupt the studies of multiple students living in the area. We already have the RPA hospital here, so I believe there is no point of making another hospital here.

Please see submission attached.