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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National

New ambulance station for Hunter as demand soars

EDGEWORTH will be home to a new ambulance station as part of what the state government has previously announced as a record $1.76 billion spend to boost frontline emergency care.

It comes amid "five weeks of fury" by Health Services Union members, including work bans and highly visible civil disobedience, after it was revealed the number of ambulance call-outs in NSW had reached at least a decade high in the final quarter of last year.

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