Around this time last year, fewer than a third of the patients who turned up to Wollongong ED with potentially life-threatening conditions got treatment on time.

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But new data from this September, released today by Health Minister Ryan Park, shows a massive turnaround with 86.3 per cent of these people - who are supposed to start treatment within 10 minutes - being seen on time.

There have also been huge improvements for those needing "urgent" treatment, and for people arriving by ambulance to the ED.

Mr Park said this was the result of hard wo

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