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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Health
Anita Beaumont

A 101-hour wait for a bed: Maitland Hospital a 'war zone'

Broken: Nurses and midwives are calling for safer staff-to-patient ratios. Picture: Simone De Peak

IN 25 years of nursing, Kylie Goodwin had never witnessed a patient having to wait four days in the emergency department for a bed.

She has now.

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