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Health
Callum Godde

Hospital in hot water over 'cooking the books' claims

A hospital is accused of falsifying records to meet ambulance offload target times. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

A major public hospital has been accused of pulling the wool over health authorities' eyes by doctoring emergency patient transfer records.

Staff at Melbourne's Northern Hospital have allegedly routinely doctored records since 2017 to show patients being offloaded from ambulances within target times, the Herald Sun reports.

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