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More Hospitals
Mar 31 2008, 4:08 PM EDT
Stop giving ridiculous tax cuts of $8 week and put that money into hospitals. Build more hospitals, just don't fill them with overseas doctors that can't speak english!
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1. RE: More Hospitals
Nov 19 2008, 7:41 PM EST
Well there are two issues there. One is the lack of available hospital beds that remain fairly stagnant despite the population rise in each state. Hospital development needs to be a continual process to avoid being caught short like now. It is better to have reserve capacity than none.The second issue is the shortage of locally trained doctors due to a lack of foresight into the future need. To train a consultant doctor it realistically takes 5-7 years of university based on entry system, followed by 8-10 years of training. That means training of doctors need to be based on projections up to 17 years in the future (a minimum of 8-9 years would be realistic). Australia currently is extremely short and hence the high demand to recruit overseas doctors to fill the shortage. The government's response was to finally address the issue 2 years ago by increasing the number of university spots by a massive number at an unrealistic rate in some states such as QLD. The problem is simply increasing university spots isn't the complete fix. The issue is over the next 2,3,4,5 years the sudden increase in graduating doctors will have a difficult time finding places in hospitals to actually work. I believe the hospitals will be able to cope with the surge initially but by 2012 they will not be able to handle the influx and doctors will have nowhere to train. If that wasn't bad enough the lack of specialist training positions for the current number of doctors is a joke let alone when the number of doctors triples as is planned. Serious development of the training process and capacity needs to be addressed urgently or a serious problem is going to occur within 3 years. Simon Qld graduating doctor. Do you find this valuable? |
