Why Some Hospital Patients Wait Hours For A Bed: What Can Be Done? | Talking Point | Full Episode
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 Published On Nov 20, 2023

Have you waited for hours, even days to get a bed in a public hospital? Over 50 Talking Point viewers wrote in to us with their stories. Steven Chia deep dives into Singapore’s public healthcare system to investigate if our hospitals are in crisis, and what’s being done about it?

0:00 Introduction
2:00 How are waiting times calculated?
3:49 Why can’t we just add more hospital beds?
7:43 How many beds do we need?
10:42 Managing hospital beds isn't easy
16:04 One possible solution: A hospital at home?
18:27 Other radical solutions

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