With a shortage of aged-care beds, discharging patients stranded in hospital is harder than it sounds
- Written by Hal Swerissen, Emeritus Professor of Public Health, La Trobe University
David Sacks/Getty ImagesThe Australian government has finalised a A$220 billion hospital funding deal with the states and territories.
A key part of the negotiation was $2 billion designed to help hospitals move more than 3,000 patients stranded in hospital waiting for discharge to a more appropriate aged-care facility.
However this wasn’t...





