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Opposition leader Tony Abbott says public hospitals should be run by the community to stop the health system being strangled by red tape. The Coalition says if it wins the next election, it will give every major public hospital in New South Wales and Queensland a management board, doing away with local area health bureaucracies. Mr Abbott says hospitals need to be managed by community boards held accountable by the community. "When the Garling report in 2008 demonstrated that public hospitals were being killed by red tape, the New South Wales Government didn't appoint more nurses... it announced 500 extra...