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Politics
Tess Ikonomou

'Holding the tide back': doctor's plea for health deal

Doctors warn there's no downtime in hospital emergency departments anymore. (Rob Blakers/AAP PHOTOS)

Health ministers are being urged to jointly shoulder the burden for funding public hospitals as a leading emergency doctor warns of ambulance queues and overflowing waiting rooms.

State and territory governments have rejected the latest funding offer from the federal government to prop up the overstretched public hospital system.

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