Health minister to meet with angry doctors NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner will meet with angry doctors who are concerned about the closure of beds at a major Sydney hospital, Premier Barry O'Farrell says. Mr O'Farrell said the government is trying to trim health bureaucracies but if money isn't getting to the frontline, he wants to know about it. Last month, authorities at the Prince of Wales Hospital revealed plans to close a ward and an additional 26 beds. Doctors and dentists who work at the hospital have gone public with their concerns about the move, saying it will have consequences for patient management and the delivery of clinical services. The Prince of Wales medical staff council said it objected to the "hasty and divisive" way in which the chief executive demanded the services be reduced. Labor's health spokesman Andrew McDonald said the ward closure had be prompted by management trying to meet the state government's $3 billion in savings to the health budget. But Mr O'Farrell said the intention was to streamline the bureaucracy, not the frontline. "What the government wanted to do was trim back offices, trim bureaucracies in order to direct more resources, more dollars to the frontline to help out health professionals," he told reporters on Thursday. If that's not happening I want to know about it and that's one of the reasons the health minister is sitting down with those affected next week. Mr O'Farrell said doctors, nurses and other health professionals had his absolute support. "Clearly, budgets are tight, clearly there are concerns about ongoing funding for some beds across NSW hospitals," he said. Mr McDonald said the fact that medical staff had taken the "unprecedented step" of condemning the cuts spoke volumes about the impact the cuts were having on patient care.