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Doctors say they're pawns in Labor's agenda

NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner.

The head of the influential doctors lobby has called out the opposition's criticisms of the health system under minister Jillian Skinner as unhelpful and corrosive and urged Labor not to use hospitals to push its own political agenda.

Nepean Hospital not 'taken off matrix'

Ambulances were told to avoid Nepean Hospital after the emergency department reached capacity on Monday night.

Nepean Hospital issued a stern statement emphatically stating no ambulances were diverted its ED on Monday when the hospital struggled to cope with its huge patient load. 

Sydney hospital forced to close to ambulances

Ambulances were told to avoid Nepean Hospital after the ED reached capacity on Monday night.,

Ambulances were forced to bypass a major hospital in Sydney's west on Monday morning after Nepean Hospital's emergency department reached capacity, paramedics and hospital staff say.