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Latrobe Regional Hospital doctors take action

Doctors rostered to Latrobe Regional Hospital are angry at a State Government proposal to impose commercial rates for their accommodation at Traralgon.

 

Doctors at Latrobe Regional Hospital will take professional action including not coding discharge summaries until the state government agrees to discard proposals to charge doctors on rural rotation commercial rates.

 

“These doctors, employed by Monash Medical Centre, must maintain their Melbourne accommodation while they undertake rural hospital experience and training,” AMA Victoria President Dr Mark Yates said.

 

“This is the equivalent of an employer requiring an employee to go away for business but expecting them to pay for their own accommodation,” Dr Yates said.

 

“It is a farce, on one hand the State Government acknowledges it must encourage doctors to work in regional areas and provides these training opportunities, but then it imposes this sort of disincentive.

 

“The State Government is failing regional Victorian patients and clearly lacks understanding of the severe doctor shortage in Victoria, particularly in regional areas, and what is required to address that shortage.

 

“Other states are improving conditions, instead, for doctors such as those at Latrobe, the Bracks Government is making the situation worse.

 

“Doctors this week determined to highlight the issues, starting professional action designed to impact on hospital administration and government coffers, while protecting patient care,” Dr Yates said.

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