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Health experts have given Labor’s pledge to trial bulk-billed Medicare urgent care clinics ‘a small tick for trying’, warning they won’t empty crowded hospital EDs.
Regional doctors warn they are increasingly having to treat people in corridors and struggling to find intensive care beds for the most critically ill.
Senior doctors and nurses say overcrowding in Victoria’s emergency departments is leading to waits of up to 12 hours just to be seen and reports of increasing instances of abuse and aggression from the public.