Tumut Community Association president Colin Locke says he is very supportive of the NSW parliamentary inquiry established this week to review health outcomes and access to services outside of Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong.

"The issue has been prominent for people in Tumut for 30 years: the inequity of services between here and the city," Mr Locke said.

Mr Locke was one of the organisers of the October 2019 Wagga rally where frustrated Riverina residents called on the Murrumbidgee Local Health District for more doctors for their towns.

"My daughter was in Sydney last weekend. She's been running back and forth between Tumut and Wagga with complications from a gall bladder operation. It takes five days to get results at Wagga," he said.

"She went to Campbelltown hospital [in Sydney], everything was done in-house within three hours. She was being treated and discharged the next day."

Labor rural health spokesperson Kate Washington, whose party pushed for the inquiry, said "the whole health ecosystem" would be examined.

"It's been something that we've wanted to look at because there are clear problems, significant issues that keep arising," Ms Washington said.

"And unless those problems are known and acknowledged by the government we're not going to start seeing solutions."

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Ms Washington, who grew up in the Riverina, said she wanted to see "clear and strong recommendations" result from the inquiry, which will take public submissions until December 13 and plans to hold hearings across the state in 2021 if coronavirus restrictions allow.

Independent member for Wagga Joe McGirr has said he supports the parliamentary inquiry into rural health.

"Rural health is different because primary care and hospital care are so closely tied and yet, they are run by different levels of government," Dr McGirr said.

"This impacts on funding and it impacts on workforce and, ultimately, it impacts on the health of the community ... The metro model for running hospitals just doesn't apply in the bush."

Dr McGirr said clinical safety could also be improved in rural and regional hospitals through clinical engagement.

MLHD medical services director Len Bruce said on Wednesday he was not aware of the inquiry, when asked by The Daily Advertiser if he welcomed its investigation.

Dr Bruce said he would need to have details of the inquiry's scope before he was able to comment.