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 AMA Dr Chris Middleton
While AMA Tasmania is reassured that the public health system is the Tasmanian Labor Party's number-one priority they still have concerns David Wood caught up with Dr Chris Middleton of the AMA who says yesterday’s health announcements are well intentioned but do not tackle the big issues. AMA Tasmania has called on all political parties contesting the State election on March 20 to address the following: Funding of a further 150 beds in Tasmania's public hospital system to enable an average bed occupancy of 85% and thereby alleviate the severe problems which result from bed access block. Without this, the ongoing crisis in our emergency departments will not be resolved and the serious delays and cancellations of both urgent and elective surgical operations will continue. A commitment to guarantee the supply of doctors for Tasmania into the future. Specifically an undertaking that all students graduating from the University of Tasmania medical school will have access to preregistration internships and suitable prevocational training schemes to enable them to provide medical care in the future for the Tasmanian community. All of the other issues are important but miss the obvious. For example: Extra funding for more surgery will not work unless more beds are opened. Setting up waiting list panels and websites is not going to solve anything. Tasmanian hospitals need more beds and fewer desks not the other way round. The extreme dysfunction in Tasmanian emergency departments is not due patients with minor illnesses and injuries. It is due to the lack of inpatient beds in the hospital wards. The government fails to guarantee funds and positions for new medical graduates yet proposes a plan to take nurses away from nursing to do the work of doctors in the most challenging area possible- the public hospital emergency department. The proposals to work with communities to deliver more GPs are reasonable in the short term but the long term solution is to ensure that medical graduates who have trained at the University of Tasmania can continue as doctors in training in Tasmanian public hospitals. These will be the doctors of the future to staff our hospitals and work in our communities. |
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