Hospital performance getting worse and now facing budgetary 'black hole', says AMA

By Harriet Alexander
Updated January 28 2016 - 12:09pm, first published 1:33am
AMA president Brian Owler says public hospitals are facing a budgetary "black hole". Photo: Andrew Meares
AMA president Brian Owler says public hospitals are facing a budgetary "black hole". Photo: Andrew Meares

The federal government is under pressure to reform taxes following a report card on public hospitals that shows the most urgent patients are waiting longer at the emergency departments, bed ratios are deteriorating and elective surgery waiting times are static.

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