Thursday 13 June 2002 Stories are appearing in the Sydney Daily Telegraph today concerning the situation of doctors who are members of UMP whose court cases are falling due in the period of provisional liquidation. The stories are based a statement made on 17/5/02 by the Provisional Liquidator of UMP, [...]
ASOS Urgent Meeting Hilton, Sydney Airport, 5 May 2002 Resolutions The following resolutions were passed at a meeting of ASOS(NSW) on Sunday, 5 May 2002 at Hilton, Sydney Airport, Arncliffe. Interim Arrangement This meeting supports doctors continuing to honour their service to patients. ASOS advises to members to continue to [...]
NSW Orthopaedic Surgeons will meet in Sydney, 5 May 2002, to discuss the plight of patients of Orthopaedic Surgeons who are insured with United Medical Protection (UMP) following UMP's announcement today that it will be making an application to the court to appoint a provisional liquidator. "We hope that by [...]
Airport Hilton, Sydney NSW. 12 December 2000 Motions That ASOS obtain independent actuarial advice as to the financial viability of all six major medical defence funds and report in writing no later than 15 February 2001. CARRIED That ASOS write to the relevant state minister for health seeking a meeting [...]
Orthopaedic surgeons in Australia are being denied access to operating theatres in public hospitals and waiting times for surgery are blowing out as a result, a leading doctors group claimed today. A survey of 550 orthopaedic surgeons carried out by the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons found that Australian orthopaedic [...]
Patients with non-life threatening injuries, including elderly patients with hip fractures, are waiting up to three weeks for surgery, an orthopaedic surgeon at Liverpool hospital claimed today. Dr Ian Harris, an orthopaedic surgeon at Liverpool and St George hospitals, said the delays recently led to a 28 year old woman [...]
This advice will provide a general overview of the legislation and its application to the Health and Medical industries. Overview The GST legislation will come into effect on 1 July 2000 and will apply to the domestic consumption of all goods and services. While the GST is generally collected at [...]
An experienced hand surgeon at Westmead hospital has been sacked because he wants to specialise in hand surgery. Forty year old Dr David Dilley who studied hand surgery for 12 months at the world famous Louisville, Kentucky Kleinert Hand Surgery Unit, is one of only two full-time specialist hand surgeons [...]
New Initiatives for Motor Accident Victims The Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999: Implications for Orthopaedic Surgeons The information contained below was scanned from an original document supplied by the NSW Motor Accidents Authority and is reproduced here for the information of ASOS members. (September 2000). Background Medical Disputes The MAS [...]
Dr Greg Bruce, an Orthopaedic Surgeon currently serving in East Timor should be allowed to continue as an Honorary Surgeon at Mt Druitt and Blacktown public hospitals where he has worked for the past fifteen years for no payment. Dr Bruce was told in two lines of a short letter [...]