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Premier promises reduced ED wait times

Premier Ben Carroll has promised to cut emergency department wait times by 20 per cent if Labor is re-elected. Speaking at University Hospital Geelong, he said 12 hospital emergency departments would be expanded by 25 per cent. The plan also includes 1500 new health workers, among them 750 nurses, and 250 more beds. Health Minister Ingrid Stitt said the changes would allow more than 210,000 patients to be treated each year. The state average emergency department wait is currently 15 minutes, though some patients wait more than two hours.

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Labor pitches $1.5 billion plan to slash emergency wait times

Premier Ben Carroll has promised to expand a dozen emergency departments by 25 per cent as Victorian Labor launches its bid for a fourth term. The $1.5 billion health package also includes 1,500 more health workers, half of them nurses, and 150 extra hospital beds, most opening next year. Labor says the expansions will cut waits by up to 20 per cent at hospitals in Melbourne and regional Victoria. The Australian Medical Association welcomed the funding but called for a review of the whole emergency care system.

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Inaugural Dr Adnan Al-Bursh lecture pays tribute to Gaza’s health workers

More than 200 people attended the inaugural Dr Adnan Al-Bursh Memorial Lecture on October 17, hosted by the Australian Healthcare Alliance for Palestine and Nurses and Midwives for Palestine. The event honoured Al-Bursh, a Palestinian orthopaedic surgeon who died on April 19, 2024, aged 50, after being tortured at Ofer Prison in the Occupied West Bank. Speakers included cardiologist Professor Peter Macdonald, who gave the keynote, and doctors who have undertaken medical missions in Gaza. Speakers described harsh conditions for medical staff and residents in Gaza, and called for people to speak out.

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