Thursday, March 1, 2012

Vic: Health Minister calls for private insurance overhaul = 2

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Vic: Health Minister calls for private insurance overhaul = 2

A spokeswoman for Mr Thwaites later said hospitals went on ambulance bypass in two-hourblocks by alerting the metropolitan ambulance service they no longer had the capacityto take in emergency patients.

Patients were taken to the nearest available hospital, usually a public hospital.

She said when public hospitals went on ambulance bypass they still admitted categoryone emergency patients, the most urgent cases.

AAP bja/jlw/jmd _

KEYWORD: INSURANCE THWATIES 2 MELBOURNE (REOPENS)

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