00:02It is essentially a campaign promise from the Men's Labour government.
00:06Re-elect us next year and we will bring hospital-level care to your home.
00:11This $259 million program, dubbed NSW Health at Home, aims to relieve the bottleneck,
00:20which is long wait times across emergency departments.
00:23And it promises to save the hospital beds for the cases that can only be managed
00:28at a hospital from a hospital bed and send everybody else home where they could be cared for at home.
00:34Premier Christmans says that this program will service 76,000 patients a year.
00:40They can be sent home with monitoring equipment and scheduled doctor and nurse appointments as well.
00:45This is using state-of-the-art modern technology with up-to-date immediate health information back to headquarters.
00:53So that in many cases, the doctors and nurses here will be able to spot if something's gone wrong
00:59before the patient will even know about it.
01:01The Australian Medical Association has welcomed the program, saying the government is thinking outside the box
01:08and commending them for that.
01:10In a statement, the peak body said that the program will free up beds,
01:14but also insisted that it will not be a substitute for properly staffing public hospitals.
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