NSW: A quarter of emergency patients wait more than 8 hrs: Opp
SYDNEY, Jan 2 AAP - A NSW government report has revealed that nearly a quarter of emergencypatients had to wait more than eight hours for admission to hospital in 2001-02, the Oppositionsaid today.
Opposition health spokeswoman Jillian Skinner said the NSW Health Department's annualreport revealed that in 2001-02 only 78 per cent of patients were admitted to a bed withineight hours.
This compared to 83 per cent four years ago when more people were attending emergencydepartments, she said.
"They are very sick people ... forced to lie in trolleys in corridors waiting for …
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