Patient dies while no doctor present at Tenterfield hospital

By Carolyn Millet
October 30 2019 - 7:00am
CRITICAL INCIDENT: The hospital had no doctor from Thursday to Monday while the usual medical officer was on leave and a locum fell through.
CRITICAL INCIDENT: The hospital had no doctor from Thursday to Monday while the usual medical officer was on leave and a locum fell through.

A patient died at Tenterfield Hospital over the weekend after the facility was "unable to provide sufficient clinical resources to manage the rapidly deteriorating patient".

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