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Health
Tom Wark

Patients suffer while hospital funding row drags on

More than 1000 patients are overstaying in hospital because they can't move on to other services. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

If health officials can't work together to solve hospital crowding, patients needing critical care will continue to be left in the cold, emergency doctors warn.

As state and federal health ministers squabble over who is responsible for the problem of 'bed block', doctors are crying out for both sides to see the true cause of the problem.

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