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By Alesha Capone

9th March 2010 11:05:09 AM

Wing and a prayer … Prime Minister Kevin Rudd visited Sunshine Hospital on Saturday. 44061 Picture: KRISTIAN SCOTT

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PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd visited Sunshine Hospital on Saturday, as he continued to sell his planned national health reforms.

Mr Rudd was accompanied by MPs Nicola Roxon and Bill Shorten as he met patients and inspected the hospital’s $200 million expansion, which includes the construction of a Teaching Training and Research facility and a new operating theatre.

Mr Rudd used the tour as a chance to attack the State Government’s doubts about the national health plan.

“Any premier who thinks that their system is just fine and dandy and can’t be improved further, that premier is just kidding themselves. That goes for Victoria, that goes for every state across the country,” he said.

Mr Rudd said doctors at the hospital had told him they were under pressure when it came to elective surgery.

“They want us in there providing funding certainty for the future so they can get on with the job of delivering better health and hospital services,” he said.

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