Doctor flying 19,000km to help with NSW doctor shortage
EXCLUSIVE by Kate Sikora
The Daily Telegraph
November 29, 2008 12:00am
AN obstetrician from London is regularly being flown 19,000km to rural NSW in a desperate bid to deal with the critical shortage of doctors.
In a sign of how desperate rural NSW has become for medical professionals, another obstetrician is working without full qualifications.
The latest example of the funding crisis in health comes as the state health ministers meet today to thrash out the details of a massive Federal Government package to rescue public hospitals.
Australian-trained Dr David Hodgson, who helped pioneer the three-minute hysterectomy, is based in London but for the past year has been flown out on almost a two-monthly basis to work at Wagga Wagga Hospital, in the hope he will stay permanently.
But the decision to spend an exorbitant amount on flights and accommodation has been criticised by maternity groups and rural doctors, who say the money could be better spent on enticing city-based doctors to the bush.
Only two months ago, the Greater Southern Area Health Service was struggling to pay its bills and owed more than $30,000.
What Women Want founder Justine Caines said a more viable option would be to invest in midwifery services.
"It just seems like such an expensive solution when a midwifery model of care could be developed," she said.
In Bega, Dr Thamir Karam is listed as the on-call obstetrician but due to lack of qualifications, he must also be supervised by a colleague.
The Iraqi-born doctor has been working in Australia for several years and while there is no concern about his ability, local doctors are worried his experience is not enough to manage complicated births.
The Daily Telegraph understands Dr Karam dropped out of the training program run by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
College president Dr Ted Weaver said the cases highlighted the desperate need to entice obstetricians to rural towns. "It is wrong to suggest a person without the diploma is the same as an Australian-trained obstetrician who has gone through the college's training," he said.
In a statement, the area health service said: "GSHAS has a short-term arrangement where the doctor rotates working in Wagga Wagga for a month before returning to the UK.
"The locum doctor providing services at Bega Hospital . . . is being supported by a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist. Referee checks were completed."
Hey what are these smucks complaining about? Medi(dont )care is without doubt the best third world free health system on earth bar none, after all surely the Australian Labor Party knows whats best for your health than you and your Doctor, anyone complaining about the above story should be visited by a Union official and coumcelled on t heerrors of the thinking.
The joke is that just this very day i spoke to a woman working in the Australian health system who was a British immigrant who told me of her sisters plight in the UK who was given a 48 week wait to see a gynecologist for an urgent medical problem.
The Australian Labor Party based its FREE health care system on their Bruvvers in arms in the UK Labor Party's shambolic free National Health System, The Australian Labor Party was determined to destroy the BEST health care system in the world and replace it with the WORST, and Australians fell for it hook line and sinker because they were told it would not cost them any money when they visited the Doctor.
Under Socialism EVERYTHING is free until they no longer need YOU.
See Below Australian Labor Party's latest report card
Hospitals out of resources and Rees out of money
The Daily Telegraph
November 28, 2008 12:00am
THE NSW health system is on the brink of collapse, with a special commission of inquiry recommending emergency wards now treat only the most urgent cases - with all other patients forced to wait in line at general practice clinics.
In a scathing report, commissioner Peter Garling revealed NSW hospitals had effectively run out of resources to treat the number of patients now clogging the system.
Despite Mr Garling's calls for an urgent restructure of the health system, the State Government yesterday refused to act on the 139 recommendations found in the report until mid-next year. The report has recommended closure of outer Sydney hospital emergency
wards due to lack of resources. Describing state health as "on the brink", Mr Garling said the system placed patients' needs behind doctors' and management.
Read the full report and join Simon Benson's blog
The report comes as officials head to Canberra today to ask the Federal Government for $800 million to prop up the ailing health system.
The Daily Telegraph understands that Mr Garling's reforms will cost up to $400 million if fully implemented.
However, the Government failed to provide funds in its mini-Budget for to respond to the Garling report.
"I would describe our hospitals as good by world standards, but too often unable to deal with the sudden increase in patients, the rising cost of treatment and the pressures on a workforce spread too thinly and poorly supported in the administrative tasks which take them away from their patients," Mr Garling said.
The man who campaigned for radical reform in state hospitals after his daughter's death has described yesterday's report as a hollow victory.
Warren Anderson has been pushing for change after his daughter Vanessa, 16, died in Royal North Shore Hospital in 2005 after being prescribed wrong pain medication.
In January, a coroner described her death as a result of "systematic failures" and recommended the health system be overhauled.
The Government will not respond to the report until next March.
Premier Nathan Rees conceded it would be a challenge to overhaul the system and fund the reforms.
If Mr Anderson thinks that the Australian Labor Party gives a flying F**k about their health systems contribution to his dear daughter's death he is mistaken, as Bernard Shaw a champion and apologist of the Socialist cause said:
Bernard Shaw.
EXCLUSIVE by Kate Sikora
The Daily Telegraph
November 29, 2008 12:00am
AN obstetrician from London is regularly being flown 19,000km to rural NSW in a desperate bid to deal with the critical shortage of doctors.
In a sign of how desperate rural NSW has become for medical professionals, another obstetrician is working without full qualifications.
The latest example of the funding crisis in health comes as the state health ministers meet today to thrash out the details of a massive Federal Government package to rescue public hospitals.
Australian-trained Dr David Hodgson, who helped pioneer the three-minute hysterectomy, is based in London but for the past year has been flown out on almost a two-monthly basis to work at Wagga Wagga Hospital, in the hope he will stay permanently.
But the decision to spend an exorbitant amount on flights and accommodation has been criticised by maternity groups and rural doctors, who say the money could be better spent on enticing city-based doctors to the bush.
Only two months ago, the Greater Southern Area Health Service was struggling to pay its bills and owed more than $30,000.
What Women Want founder Justine Caines said a more viable option would be to invest in midwifery services.
"It just seems like such an expensive solution when a midwifery model of care could be developed," she said.
In Bega, Dr Thamir Karam is listed as the on-call obstetrician but due to lack of qualifications, he must also be supervised by a colleague.
The Iraqi-born doctor has been working in Australia for several years and while there is no concern about his ability, local doctors are worried his experience is not enough to manage complicated births.
The Daily Telegraph understands Dr Karam dropped out of the training program run by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
College president Dr Ted Weaver said the cases highlighted the desperate need to entice obstetricians to rural towns. "It is wrong to suggest a person without the diploma is the same as an Australian-trained obstetrician who has gone through the college's training," he said.
In a statement, the area health service said: "GSHAS has a short-term arrangement where the doctor rotates working in Wagga Wagga for a month before returning to the UK.
"The locum doctor providing services at Bega Hospital . . . is being supported by a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist. Referee checks were completed."
Hey what are these smucks complaining about? Medi(dont )care is without doubt the best third world free health system on earth bar none, after all surely the Australian Labor Party knows whats best for your health than you and your Doctor, anyone complaining about the above story should be visited by a Union official and coumcelled on t heerrors of the thinking.
The joke is that just this very day i spoke to a woman working in the Australian health system who was a British immigrant who told me of her sisters plight in the UK who was given a 48 week wait to see a gynecologist for an urgent medical problem.
The Australian Labor Party based its FREE health care system on their Bruvvers in arms in the UK Labor Party's shambolic free National Health System, The Australian Labor Party was determined to destroy the BEST health care system in the world and replace it with the WORST, and Australians fell for it hook line and sinker because they were told it would not cost them any money when they visited the Doctor.
Under Socialism EVERYTHING is free until they no longer need YOU.
See Below Australian Labor Party's latest report card
Hospitals out of resources and Rees out of money
The Daily Telegraph
November 28, 2008 12:00am
THE NSW health system is on the brink of collapse, with a special commission of inquiry recommending emergency wards now treat only the most urgent cases - with all other patients forced to wait in line at general practice clinics.
In a scathing report, commissioner Peter Garling revealed NSW hospitals had effectively run out of resources to treat the number of patients now clogging the system.
Despite Mr Garling's calls for an urgent restructure of the health system, the State Government yesterday refused to act on the 139 recommendations found in the report until mid-next year. The report has recommended closure of outer Sydney hospital emergency
wards due to lack of resources. Describing state health as "on the brink", Mr Garling said the system placed patients' needs behind doctors' and management.
Read the full report and join Simon Benson's blog
The report comes as officials head to Canberra today to ask the Federal Government for $800 million to prop up the ailing health system.
The Daily Telegraph understands that Mr Garling's reforms will cost up to $400 million if fully implemented.
However, the Government failed to provide funds in its mini-Budget for to respond to the Garling report.
"I would describe our hospitals as good by world standards, but too often unable to deal with the sudden increase in patients, the rising cost of treatment and the pressures on a workforce spread too thinly and poorly supported in the administrative tasks which take them away from their patients," Mr Garling said.
The man who campaigned for radical reform in state hospitals after his daughter's death has described yesterday's report as a hollow victory.
Warren Anderson has been pushing for change after his daughter Vanessa, 16, died in Royal North Shore Hospital in 2005 after being prescribed wrong pain medication.
In January, a coroner described her death as a result of "systematic failures" and recommended the health system be overhauled.
The Government will not respond to the report until next March.
Premier Nathan Rees conceded it would be a challenge to overhaul the system and fund the reforms.
If Mr Anderson thinks that the Australian Labor Party gives a flying F**k about their health systems contribution to his dear daughter's death he is mistaken, as Bernard Shaw a champion and apologist of the Socialist cause said:
"Socialism means equality of income or nothing...........Under Socialism
you would not be allowed to be poor.
You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught and employed
whether you liked it or not.
If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to
be worth all his trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly
manner; but while you were permitted to live,
you would have to live well."
you would not be allowed to be poor.
You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught and employed
whether you liked it or not.
If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to
be worth all his trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly
manner; but while you were permitted to live,
you would have to live well."
Bernard Shaw.
Laying in a Hospital bed with a brain injury or other such ailment comes under the following "If it were discovered that you had not character and industry enough to
be worth all his trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly
manner; "
be worth all his trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly
manner; "
If they don't need you they don't feed you.
Socialism IS survival of the fittest.
Socialism IS survival of the fittest.
