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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Damon Cronshaw

Health disaster: Thousands of hospital stays could have been prevented

A huge number of hospital stays in the Hunter were 'potentially preventable'. Picture by Marina Neil

More than 16,000 hospitalisations a year for chronic conditions in the Hunter health network are potentially preventable, national health data shows.

This amounted to 80,815 days in hospital.

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