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Stephen Gourley stands in front of a hospital emergency department

A man with a button-up shirt sits down while holding a crutch, against a red wall in the background

"Chairs were absolutely scarce and people were everywhere and there was no offer of a wheelchair."

A man in a button up shirt stands in the kitchen

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About 5 ambulances line up on a ramp out the front of a hospital

"Right now 20 per cent of acute care beds are taken up by people waiting for appropriate aged care."

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"It's sad because we've known these pressures were coming for a long time, we've had good demographic modelling to tell us we should expect this,"
Mr Partington said.

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