Health experts say ramping has been caused by a complete health system 'failure' that's been brewing for decades. They're calling for a national overhaul, to get patients the help they need on time.
Ms Tame said they spend most of their time in the hospital explaining her daughter's condition to staff and waiting for test results."So much more valuable than sitting hours and hours at a hospital emergency and in the end you go home with not many answers as well," Ms Tame said."Nine times out of 10 if you go to a doctor, my doctor is unavailable or whatever, and you have to go to an unknown doctor," she said.
The emergency care clinician said the problem was not just patients being forced into the emergency department, but also patients that could not actually leave the hospital."But that just isn't available because the whole system is overloaded and not working as well as it could."add more hospital beds and employ more staff"There's band-aid measures that happen all the time, but what we need is to actually think about the whole system," she said.
"There are some state-related issues, but it needs to be looked at, like a lot of things in recent times, nationally," he said. But Ms Mountstephen's cardiologist insisted she have a test done, where she learned that she had the same incurable illness as her brother.
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