NSW Health Minister Ryan Park said that, while the financial position of the hospital was a matter for Healthscope, the government's priority was "to ensure the northern beaches community continues to have access to safe, high-quality care at the hospital". Hospital management last month informed employees of its planned changes to staffing levels, which include halving the number of full-time nurse unit managers on mental health wards. The NSW audit office has told local politicians and community members it has commenced its performance review of the hospital, first flagged after the state government pulled $7.5 million in promised funding from the hospital after Healthscope said it could not fulfil a commitment to build a specialist youth mental health unit. Healthscope won the contract to build and operate the $600 million hospital in Frenchs Forest in a unique public-private arrangement with the former Coalition government.