Paramedics and emergency departments are under more pressure than ever as the NSW government pledges to divert patients away from hospitals and improve conditions for frontline healthcare workers.

When should you go to an urgent care clinic? What are you likely to find there? And do they actually relieve the pressure on our public hospitals?

Less than half of the federal government's promised urgent care clinics have opened, months after the policy was supposed to be delivered.

Fewer than half of the federal government's promised urgent care clinics have opened months after they were supposed to be delivered.

The government committed at the last election to build at least 50 cilnics by mid-year to ease the pressure on GPs and emergency departments.

But in regional communities especially, people are still struggling to see a doctor when they urgently need it.

Less than half of the Medicare Urgent Care Centres promised by the Federal Government have been delivered. The centres were scheduled to open several months ago, but so far, only 22 of the 58 are up and running. The delay has left some health advocates in regional areas feeling short-changed.

Less than half of the federal government's promised urgent care clinics have opened, months after the policy was supposed to be delivered.

New South Wales Emergency departments are straining under intense pressure -- they're seeing more patients with life threatening conditions than ever before, and wait times are still going up.

Patients are waiting longer than ever before in the state’s emergency departments, while hospitals and paramedics are treating record numbers with the most life-threatening conditions.

The number of Victorians languishing in emergency departments for more than 24 hours has increased significantly, with doctors warning of a system that is crumbling.

An emergency department nurse says staff are still traumatised after a doctor was stabbed at a hospital in Tasmania’s north-west.

A Macquarie University study has looked at media coverage of hospital emergency departments for the past 20 years. Researchers have found wait times to be a common theme.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced $2.2 billion dollars will be allocated in the budget to try and boost access to primary healthcare and ease pressure on the health system.

The ‘distressing’ last resort option is needed to keep Territory ED staff safe, says the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine

Ashley believed she had one last shot to get help. Like millions of Australians every year, she looked for it in a hospital emergency department.

Health experts say ramping has been caused by a complete system "failure" that has been brewing for decades.

Health experts say ramping has been caused by a complete system "failure" that has been brewing for decades.

Emergency departments have been swamped by record numbers of the most seriously ill or injured patients, and almost 100,000 people sit on elective surgery waitlists as NSW hospitals buckle under the overwhelming pressure.

Seriously ill or injured patients are swamping public hospital emergency departments in New South Wales, according to new data from the Bureau of Health Information.

We fact-check the key claims made by the two men vying for the NSW premiership when they went head-to-head in the first leaders’ debate on Thursday.

Time will tell whether the implementation of these recommendations exacerbates or reduces health inequities.