Patients left waiting up to 36 hours as NSW hospitals overwhelmed, inquiry hears

Hearing told ambulance ramping at its worst' as emergency departments come under incredible pressure'

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Blocked access and overcrowding has left New South Wales hospital emergency departments under incredible pressure", with some patients waiting up to 36 hours to be admitted, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.

Pressures on hospital EDs have been on an increasing trajectory for decades" but are now a permanent state of being", the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine president, Clare Skinner, told the upper house inquiry on Wednesday.

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