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Premium Content  Experts are calling for an overhaul of the stressed health system as a major lack of beds feeds a hospital ramping crisis that emergency department staff say is threatening lives. 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. Ambulances ramped at the Royal Brisbane and Womenâs Hospital. File picture: David Clark 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 1990s.
Premium Content  Experts are calling for an overhaul of the stressed health system as a major lack of beds feeds a hospital ramping crisis that emergency department staff say is threatening lives. 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. Ambulances ramped at the Royal Brisbane and Womenâs Hospital. File picture: David Clark 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 1990s.
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Elderly man with pneumonia waited nine hours on chair in Tasmanian emergency department
The premier says it’s ‘disappointing’ the 87-year-old waited so long to see a doctor at Launceston General hospital and be given a bed
The 87-year-old’s granddaughter, Jessie Lincoln, says hospital staff ‘can’t give appropriate medical care in those conditions – we need more beds’. Photograph: Alamy
The 87-year-old’s granddaughter, Jessie Lincoln, says hospital staff ‘can’t give appropriate medical care in those conditions – we need more beds’. Photograph: Alamy
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Tue 20 Apr 2021 06.35 EDT
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The Tasmanian premier says it is disappointing an elderly man with pneumonia waited nine hours on a plastic chair in a hospital emergency department waiting room before seeing a doctor.