Medical Safety Committee Must Act on Area of Need OS Doctor Recruitment
"Allowing overseas trained doctors who accept Area of Need appointments to have a standard less than Australian Medical Graduates is putting Australians and Australian medical standards last," Chairman of the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons (ASOS), Dr John Harrison said [...]
Productivity Commission Should Examine Productivity In Public Hospitals
"The Federal Government's decision to ask the Productivity Commission to study Australia's medical workforce will be a lost opportunity unless it centres on our greatest existing and future health problem. Namely, the declining productivity of our public hospitals", Dr John [...]
Techno-Babble Bingo Game
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Medical Indemnity Crisis – Nice Words But No Answers
A meeting this morning in Manly, Sydney between the Minister for Health (elect), the Hon Tony Abbot and the NSW Chairman of the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Dr Charles New produced nice words but no answers to the current [...]
Surgical Waiting Lists – A Funding Problem
"It is easy to believe that the problems of the Australian public hospital system would be solved tomorrow by simply doubling the number of surgeons being trained," said Dr John Harrison, National Chairman of the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons [...]
Medical Indemnity
Australia's Medical Litigation Epidemic UMP Update - 13 June 2002 Status of doctors who are members of UMP whose court cases are falling due in the period of provisional liquidation. Resolutions: Medical Indemnity & Public Hospital Insurance Contracts The Problem [...]
UMP Update
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 [...]
Resolutions of Meeting Medical Indemnity & Public Hospital Insurance Contracts
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 [...]
NSW Orthopaedic Surgeons to Meet Over UMP Liquidation
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 [...]
ASOS Medical Indemnity Meeting
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 [...]
Surgeons Unable to Operate; Waiting Times Blow Out
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 [...]
Emergency Patients Waiting Weeks for an Operation Says Sydney Surgeon
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 [...]
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