Mr Walt Secord will meet with Greater Taree City Council mayor, Paul Hogan and a collective of individuals including Nita Reed and Lyn Mayo OAM who have united to fight the closure decision and relocation of the dialysis chairs to Forster Private Hospital in 2015.

The visit stems from the advocacy of Labor candidate for Myall Lakes, Dr David Keegan who is contributing to the community campaign to keep centre open.

Dr Keegan revealed last month that fractures in communication between the Manning Hospital Medical Staff Council, Manning Hospital general manager Tricia Bulic and HNE Health resulted in doctors "being very upset about the lack of consultation" regarding the decision to close the centre.

Dr Keegan was one of 13 doctors at the September 4 meeting of the Medical Staff Council to learn of the closure of the centre from HNE Health director of acute services, Todd McEwan.

In the wake of the announcement, Dr Keegan chose to speak to the issue of the centre closure and relocation of dialysis chairs and said that, "it just doesn't stack-up and so we are not sure of the logic of why they are doing it it could be economies of scale, the contract, we are not sure of that, but the whole thing is shrouded in secrecy."

"As soon as Mr Secord became shadow health minister, I asked that he visit the region and hear first-hand concerns about the downgrading of health and hospital services," Dr Keegan said.

Dr Keegan says Mr Secord is briefed on the growing community concerns about the cuts by the State government to health and hospital services in the region, including the dialysis chairs at the Nita Reed Centre and the potential impact of Tony Abbott's $7 GP tax on emergency departments and GPs.

Mr Secord said he had received urgent representations from Dr Keegan on dialysis at the Nita Reed Centre and widespread community concern about the planned re-location to a private hospital.

Mr Secord said the Baird State Liberal-National Government had cut $3 billion from NSW health funding and failed to stand up to Tony Abbott's cuts to our hospitals.

"What is happening in Taree is happening across the entire State," Mr Secord said.

"The Liberals and Nationals are privatising Kempsey hospital's x-ray unit; announced the private sector will provide day surgery at Byron Central Hospital; refused to details their privatisation plans for the Maitland-Lower Hunter hospital and in Sydney, they have given a multi-billion dollar tender to a private consortium to run the Northern Beaches hospital.

"Labor wants to continue to offer NSW communities a genuine public health system where priority is dictated by community health needs. Labor sees health care as a public priority. The Liberals and Nationals see it as a private problem.

"The list of privatisations and outsourcing of government health and hospital services continue to grow by the day in NSW."