00:02The state's hospitals are looking more and more like nursing homes.
00:05Last night there were 1,100 people in hospital who shouldn't be there.
00:111,100 people who were waiting to go home or to go to an aged care facility.
00:17The New South Wales Productivity and Equality Commission predicts that number will exceed 7,000 in a decade.
00:23This is a national crisis. If we don't move on this issue there are potentially 7,000 hospital beds that
00:31essentially will be lost.
00:33It's the federal government's job to fund aged care.
00:36But state Labor says it has no choice but to step in with $28 million for aged care services at
00:42home.
00:43The funding will cover about 300 patients for two years.
00:46So really at the end of the day it's a drop in the ocean trying to address this issue.
00:51This is without doubt a band-aid announcement from this government under pressure as an election is looming.
00:59The Productivity Commission has found the state is getting just a quarter of the new aged care beds it needs
01:04each year.
01:05It says few new facilities are financially viable as federal funding has failed to keep pace with costs.
01:12We're never going to be in a situation because we're not that kind of government
01:16and I don't think we should be that kind of country where we throw an old person onto the street.
01:20If they've got nowhere to go but we need to try and find a way through this.
01:24A health system on life support.
01:26You must be able to find a sort.
01:29Increase the work there.
01:30Do we need a development?
01:31Priced.
01:32country leave care state board. We're
01:32not aware that the need can beAllah. Now we're
01:32looking at a state board at home base. So please pull
01:32to go and see an eye contact with us. And they're
