Australia's emergency departments are under unprecedented strain, while more Australians are ever are seeking emergency medical care. It's a situation leaving doctors and nurses shattered, and patients feeling angry and helpless.
One of the biggest impacts of COVID has been on the already strained workforce of doctors and nurses who work in emergency departments.
"So it's incredibly stressful to try and cover the shift, provide the care, knowing that they're working down and can only do so many double shifts before they burn out themselves.""That is something that nurses have shared with me, they're used to getting abused, maybe physically, but definitely verbally, once a shift, or twice a shift, but now it's increased by eight-fold, ten-fold, of what they're experiencing.
Ambulance ramping caused by overcrowding in emergency departments has been experienced around the country. Professor Robson said the primary care sector that general practitioners operate in needs to be properly funded so GPs can coordinate care for patients with complex and chronic medical conditions.
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