Dominic Perrottet denied receiving any preferential treatment when his wife suffered an injury, but confirmed he called Brad Hazzard to seek advice, who happened to be meeting with the NSW Ambulance commissioner.
The chief of NSW Ambulance personally arranged for an ambulance to be dispatched to Dominic Perrottet’s home and transport his injured wife to hospital after speaking to the premier on the phone during a meeting with the state’s health minister.
He said NSW Ambulance Commissioner Dominic Morgan organised the ambulance to be dispatched to his home that day. “Brad [Hazzard] is a friend and somebody who has been around health for many, many years, and he’s somebody who I speak to regularly.” The head of the Health Service Union , which represents paramedics, slammed the politicisation of confidential patient information.
A spokeswoman for NSW Ambulance said Morgan and an emergency medicine consultant were at a scheduled meeting with Hazzard on February 13, 2023 when the premier called Hazzard and told him that his wife had been injured.
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