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Advance Care Planning
AMA Victoria Policy: Advance Care Directives & wishes as to Organ and Tissue Donation. As endorsed by the AMA Victoria State Council and approved by the AMA Victoria Board November 2011, AMA Victoria will be submitting its views to the federal AMA in the...
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Bed Watch
During the 2010 Victorian Election, the then Coalition Opposition committed to providing 1600 new public hospital beds. In the 2010 Budget the Baillieu Government reaffirmed this commitment to adding 800 new beds to Victorian public hospitals by the end of...
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General Practice Red tape
AMA Victoria, together with Small Business Victoria, have identified over 100 Victorian Government forms that doctors need to fill in. We are working closely with the Department of Business and Innovation to address the sheer volume of this paperwork, and...
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Health IT
Despite the promises of HealthSMART, Victoria still does not have ICT infrastructure that caters adequately for the needs of patients. The potential quality and safety benefits of IT are not being realised, costing time and money, and leading to poorer patient...
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Health Services Plan 2022
It was a constant refrain from AMA Victoria during 2010 — we need a plan to deliver the long term improvements in health care. Doctors were frustrated at seeing ad hoc announcements, fragmented programs, and political spin. In response to this pressure...
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Medicare Locals: More bureaucrats, less care?
Medicare Locals were proposed by the Commonwealth Government as a solution to the difficulties faced by patients trying to navigate the increasingly complex and fragmented healthcare system, by increasing access to primary care. However, GPs point out that...
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Nurse Practitioners
AMA Victoria does not support a role for the independent nurse practitioner. Rather, we support a model of primary care that places practice nurses within General Practice, and nurse practitioners in specialised roles in hospitals or primary care, working...
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Public Hospital Performance
The Department of Health provides quarterly hospital performance reports. They also now have an emergency department website that provides waiting time estimates. Median time to treatment for elective surgeries are also available here.
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Specialist Training Places
One of the most important issues facing Australia’s health is medical training. In 2012, Victoria will have an estimated 792 graduates from three universities. Victoria has pledged to provide PGY1 and PGY2 positions for every domestic graduate and has...
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