Blocked access and overcrowding has left NSW hospital emergency departments under "incredible pressure", with some patients waiting up to 36 hours to be admitted, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.
Pressures on hospital EDs "have been on an increasing trajectory for decades" but are now a "permanent state of being", Australasian College for Emergency Medicine president Clare Skinner told the upper house inquiry on Wednesday.
Emergency medicine experts are being quizzed at the probe - called by Labor earlier this year - about bottlenecks at public hospitals as they remain under pandemic stress.
