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Intensive care doctors will ask the commonwealth to consider a national plan to fly ICU specialists into Sydney from interstate in the event that pressure on the New South Wales hospital system worsens in coming weeks.
Dr Anthony Holley, president of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (Anzics), will raise the concept when he and other members of a critical care advisory group meet with the chief medical officer Paul Kelly on Thursday.
Read the original article at The Guardian