Episode

AMA worried about hospital bed blocks, NDIS reforms

Podcast: Radio National Breakfast
Published: May 14, 2026
Duration seconds: 240
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The federal government says this week's budget delivers "significant investments and critical reforms" to health and aged care ... But new figures this week reveal the scale of so-called 'bed blocks' — with some 33-hundred aged care patients left stranded in public hospitals. GUEST: Dr Julian Rait, Vice President of the Australian Medical Association PRODUCER: Jason Whittaker