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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 6 Hansard (22 June) . . Page.. 1648 ..


While every effort is made to return patients to TCH ICU as soon as possible in October/November 1998 two patients did stay at NCP11 ICU for 7 and 8 days respectively. At this time the TCH ICU was regularly full and there were inadequate numbers of staff to open the numbers of beds required. It was for this reason that I approved and arranged the use of TNCM ICU as an overflow. In the main, stable TCH ICU patients were then able to be transferred to TNCM and transferred back to TCH ICU when the staffing situation improved. Staff shortages could, in some cases, last a number of days and although TCH ICU patients were being discharged the requirement for ICU beds from aeromedical retrieval and other sources continued unabated.


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