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The AMA says a report on public hospitals today provides yet another reminder
that a single hospital funding system, rather than more of the same, must be
put on the table.
AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said the report released today by the Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare showed there were more than seven million presentations
to emergency departments in 2007-08.
“Our public hospitals are simply not coping with the increasing
pressures,” Dr Pesce said.
How many more reports will it take before government acts decisively
to protect the interests of our patients?
Doctors are increasingly frustrated by a system that consistently fails
patients; making them wait when they are in pain, then forcing them out of
beds too early when they finally get to hospital.
Rather than endless cost shifting, we need to examine a single funding
responsibility for health.
Mr Rudd raised expectations for patients and doctors that something would
finally be done about public hospitals.
The time has come to deliver on that promise.”
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