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More doctors go bush, but hospitals still squeezed

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Emergency departments at regional hospitals are under immense pressure, despite more specialist doctors working in the bush.

There has been a 75 per cent increase in the proportion of emergency medicine specialists working in rural and remote areas across NSW.

But workforce shortages continue to bite as country patients seek emergency care in greater numbers than their city peers, according to a...


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