Access block began to affect hospitals in the Australian Capital Territory during the winter of 2000. Practice was seriously affected first at the Canberra Hospital, a 500-bed mixed adult/paediatric tertiary hospital, in 2000, and then in 2002 at Calvary Hospital (220 beds), the other hospital in the ACT with an emergency department (ED).
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- The Canberra Hospital, Canberra, ACT.
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