Quality of care is what matters – not location or politics

AMID all the politicking surrounding the proposed new National Children’s Hospital may be we’ve lost sight of the endgame: that there are parents around the country for whom quality of care is the only relevant concern.

These are the thousands of parents whose lives are shaped by hospital wards; whose children require frequent or constant specialised care and who would travel to the ends of the earth and back if it meant only the most miniscule improvement in the quality of life of their sick child.

For parents such as these, the location of a new National Children’s Hospital is not a deal breaker; what matters most is the skill and expertise of the people who work inside.