Local GPs tell of communication breakdown with Northern Beaches Hospital

GPs working in Sydney's northern beaches have complained about the poor communication they have experienced with the Northern Beaches Hospital since it opened late last year, including one GP who had 650 discharge summaries posted to her practice months after they were written and anecdotes that hospital staff did not know how to use its IT system.

In a public submission to a parliamentary inquiry into the hospital, local GP Caroline Rogers complained of poor communication with GPs, that they had not received discharge summaries for the first six months the hospital was open, fax machines did not work and information was not being shared.