Australian Health Ministers Meeting to Tackle Widespread Hospital Bed Block

Australian Health Ministers Meeting to Tackle Widespread Hospital Bed Block
Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on April 1, 2022. Rebecca Zhu/The Epoch Times
Steve Milne
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Federal, state, and territory health ministers will meet on Friday to discuss options to tackle the nationwide issue of bed block, which occurs when patients in emergency departments (EDs) cannot be moved to hospital beds because they are occupied.

The ministers will travel to Canberra to address the problem by looking at ways patients who don’t essentially need hospital care can be discharged, thus freeing up beds and reducing pressure on the health system.

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