More Victorians than ever are being left waiting for an urgent ambulance response or to be seen at emergency departments, as the state’s frontline health services continue to be stretched by staff illness and increasingly sick patients.
Victoria’s latest quarterly health performance data released on Saturday shows a dramatic increase in the number of people who have been stuck in emergency departments for more than a day, as they wait for a bed to become available at hospitals grappling with COVID, the flu and care delayed as a result of the pandemic.
From April to June this year, 1844…
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