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NDIS Minister Bill Shorten announces plan to free up hospital beds as WA backlog revealed

National Disability Insurance Scheme Minister Bill Shorten has revealed around 177 WA hospital beds are being taken up by patients who do not need to be there.

That is because those patients are medically fit for discharge but are waiting on arrangements through the NDIS to be able to leave hospital.

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