‘Got it wrong’: Why hospitals are at breaking point

Professionals from across the system have called for a doubling of beds on major campuses, federal funding of private health insurance and nurses empowered to discharge patients and care for them in the community in a slew of reform ideas.They spoke to The Courier-Mail as about 40 per cent of patients brought to hospitals via ambulance sit ramped at EDs, and the state’s longest-serving health director-general Professor Robert Stable admits “we got it wrong” when planning for bed growth in the…



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