David Wynn, who was twice revived - and is still living - is just one of hundreds more horror stories made public this week.

In another submission, a New England mayor and former nurse told the inquiry a lack of resources in the rural health system was responsible for the death of three woman in her town - one of them suffering from nothing more than a broken wrist.

Mr Wynn, who lives in a small town near Tamworth, said the Tamworth Rural Referral Hospital had not even apologised for his near-death experience, which he blamed on "total screw ups".

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"My one hope from this inquiry is that no one ever goes through what I went through," he said.

"I died, I had to be revived.

"My daughters almost lost their father at a young age due to incompetence within the hospital system that should never ever have been allowed."

In his submission to the inquiry, the 50-year-old said he presented at the hospital complaining of blood in his stool and feeling ill and uncomfortable - only to be sent home with a false diagnosis of gastroenteritis. The next day he was found to have an ulcer in his small intestine - and was "basically bleeding to death".

"If I had not been in hospital, rather out on a machine, driving a vehicle and I had collapsed and passed away and had to be revived again the consequences for others could have been dire, drastic and even fatal," he said.

"That incompetence needs to stop The bean counting needs to stop. The penny pinching needs to stop."

Meanwhile, former registered nurse and Glen Innes Mayor Carol Sparks told the inquiry the local hospital's reliance on locum - temporary - doctors had cost three lives in her town.

One woman died with a broken wrist, after "many transfers to different facilities in the New England", she said.

In another tragedy "a few years ago" she said "a young woman died after surgery" after receiving no post operative advice.

A third died last year.

"We have recently lost a young women through, I believe, not having a professional assessment on arriving at the hospital," she said.

"It is common knowledge that Glen Innes hospital be bypassed [by ambulances] in some cases if the emergency is too critical."

Theirs were among about 298 submissions to the upper house health outcomes and access to health and hospital services in rural, regional and remote New South Wales inquiry.

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About 149 were made public last week, but the parliament is working through the balance of the public submissions and publishing them. Mr Wynn's and Ms Sparks' contributions were published this week.

Hunter New England Health was contacted for comment but referred the Leader's questions to NSW Health.

A NSW Health spokesperson said the department acknowledges the concerns raised in submissions to the inquiry. They will be issuing their own submission and will participate in the hearings.

"Almost three million people attended a NSW public hospital emergency department last year and more than half of those were in rural, regional and remote areas," the spokesperson said.

"Of all those patients who pass through our public hospitals, 99.999 per cent will have a positive outcome. Just 0.001 per cent of all patients discharged from hospital will be involved in a clinical incident which results in serious patient harm, known as a sentinel event."

The spokesperson said NSW Health is "recognised as one of the best in the world" but that "no health system is without its challenges".

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