Health Department Secretary Kathrine Morgan Wicks has unveiled a new patient transport system which is expected to improve patient wait times and cut down on ambulance ramping.
The state government will now avoid transferring hospital patients via emergency departments in an attempt to limit ambulance ramping.
The move is part of a new inter-hospital transfer policy which will see some patients pushed straight past the emergency department.
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