The number of Australians who were dead for a hospital bed is with the same level with road deaths, a senior Canberra emergency department doctor explained.

Australian National University medical school's road trauma chairman, Associate Professor Drew Richardson, also claimed that 30 per cent of emergency wards' work is involved in caring for patients whose initial cure has ended but still await for a bed.

He stated that hospitals might shift it to a seven-day-a-week surgical roster to evade all the build-ups of patients that clog wards. Professor Richardson will offer the recent most Australian data on hospital ''access block'' at a conference in the capital today.

Access block comes natural for the term employed for patients who are admitted in case of an emergency but at the same time must have to wait eight hours or more to be admitted to a ward.

The recent conference has been scheduled a week later Canberra's public hospitals who fought for the unprecedented number of walk-in patients.

Canberra and Calvary hospitals' emergency departments witnessed an integrated number of 484 patients on Sunday last week, when evaluated with a usual load of 280 to 290.

The surge was associated with weather-related respiratory illnesses, and showed increased activity across the east coast.