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This Hospital's ED Policy Helped Close the Gap. Then Came the Criticism

The triage policy raised First Nations patients to a minimum urgency category three, cutting wait times to an average of 68 minutes, hospital officials said.

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Doctors and medical associations have backed a Melbourne hospital's emergency department triage policy to improve care for First Nations patients, describing criticisms of the closing the gap measure as 'opportunistic, uninformed'.

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This hospital's ED policy helped close the gap. Then came the criticism

Doctors and medical associations have backed a Melbourne hospital's emergency department triage policy to improve care for First Nations patients, describing criticisms of the closing the gap measure as 'opportunistic, uninformed'.

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Claims misrepresent hospital's Indigenous treatment policy

Melbourne's St Vincents Hospital has been falsely accused of discrimination linked to Victoria's First Nations treaty.

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The New Daily broke the news in Australia on Tuesday, November 11, 2025.
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