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Health
Alex Mitchell

Federal cash plea to remedy emergency health services

Demand for ambulance and emergency department services continues to grow in NSW. (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS)

A primary care system in "freefall" has heaped unparalleled pressure on NSW's emergency departments and ambulances services, as governments are urged to pump more money into the health network.

Ambulance personnel attended nearly 285,000 incidents between April and June, a figure the Bureau of Health Information said was the highest since it began reporting the data in 2010.

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