Nurses' advocate and former Batemans Bay Hospital nurse Janice Dubavs said 13 managers worked between the Greater Southern Area Health Service's (GSAHS) two hospitals in the Eurobodalla, the same number as employed at Orange Base Hospital, which has double the number of beds.

"There are too many chiefs and not enough indians," she said.

"The nurses are being demoralised. Even though they are doing their best to continue the good care at the hospitals, they really need better rosters and front-line service staff."

Mr Constance said valuable taxpayers' money would continue to be wasted on the functions of bureaucracy instead of front-line service delivery until the NSW Government reformed its health system administration.

"There's 5500 corporate managers in NSW," he said.

"It is imperative if we are going to fix health in this country, we tackle the issue of bureaucratic waste.

"On any measure, 13 managers across two hospitals when they are trying to save money by cutting the number of registered nurses by nine is unacceptable."

Ms Dubavs said a first year manager's wage was equivalent to one full-time and one part-time first year registered nurse.

Batemans Bay and Moruya hospitals have one general manager, one infectious disease manager, three nursing unit managers, two after hours managers, one evening shift manager, three ward managers, one assistant manager of the hospital and one clinical coordinator.

Ms Dubavs said most of those managers were required to do clinical work on top of their management duties, but there were some that were not.

She said Orange Base Hospital, which has 180 beds and was under the Greater Western Area Health Service, has about 12 managers.

Ms Dubavs said Young Hospital, another GSAHS hospital, has 32 beds and three managers.

She said residents were invited to attend a public meeting at the Batemans Bay Soldiers Club on February 8 at 11am to show support for the nursing staff and to hear suggestions from the community about how the health services in Eurobodalla could get back to being patient-first care.

Greater Southern Area Health Service did not provide comment by the time the Bay Post/Moruya Examiner went to print.