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Queue jumping claim rejected by AMA
AMA Victoria President Dr Sam Lees said patients who funded their surgery were not disadvantaging public hospital patients.
“They are not queue jumping. They are not taking the place of someone further up the hospital’s elective surgery list for public patients,” Dr Lees said.
“No public patient is disadvantaged by this. In fact it means places are freed for other patients who have been waiting to get on the public list.”
Dr Lees said public hospitals that chose to have private patient operating lists did so because government funding for public patient surgery lists was not sufficient to utilise their facilities to the fullest capacity.
“The private surgery lists enable doctors and these public hospitals to provide care to more patients than government funding would allow,” Dr Lees said.
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