Port Augusta was hurt and offended by being neglected as a location for one of the proposed four key strategic hospitals under the government’s Country Health SA plan, opposition health spokesperson Vickie Chapman said.

In a tour of the region's health services on Thursday, Mrs Chapman voiced concern over the moral of Port Augusta's hospital as well as calling for Pika Wiya Health Service to lead the way into a new community controlled State system.

"The government's got to give these services autonomy," she said.

The member for parliament toured the service and the Royal Flying Doctor Service as part of the Liberal party's three-day community cabinet meeting in the city.

Mrs Chapman was glad that the government "back-flipped" on health minister John Hill's Country Health SA plan to downgrade health services to the State but said that it was now time for Mr Hill to allow all health organisations the opportunity to disaffiliate.

After Pika Wiya and its Ceduna counterpart were given the option to detach from the health department, Mrs Chapman believed that it was now time for the government to allow all health services to become community controlled.

Mrs Chapman would put forward a bill to give control back to hospital boards, with the government and health department only allocating money, she said.

"No one should have to stay with country health if they don't want," she said.

"Their plan was poor and it hurt the country."

But Pika Wiya's leading role in a move towards a community-controlled state was not the only thing Mrs Chapman was concerned about in her visit.

"Why was the city overlooked as a major rural hospital?" she said.

"The people of Port Augusta are angry, and rightly so."

"The government wanted to look after one single Aboriginal community, but all of the city should have been included in the plan."

Mrs Chapman acknowledged that the proposed role for Port Augusta as the c entre for excellence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health was not overly bad, although was bemused as to why Mr Hill would neglect the rest of the Port Augusta community.

"It's no excuse for abandoning mainstream health," she said.

Mrs Chapman met with health workers and service officials at Pika Wiya on Thursday before going and touring the new RFDS base.