TUE Health Scope
Good Morning,
Aged care dominated federal issue this morning with the release of the Incoming Government Briefs provided to the Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation. The report released official advice that the Govt spent more than a quarter of its money on health, pensions and aged-care related expenditure. Older pensioners moving into residential aged care will soon have to foot a portion of their nursing home bill. National Seniors CEO, Michael O'Neil called for a bipartisan support in new funding model for aged care. More on the Incoming Government Briefs report here - http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/IGB/
The public face of NEHTA National E-Health Transition Authority, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, says that more integration is needed to reap the benefits of NEHTA. Haikerwal called for a national implementation arm to be established so as to co-ordinate across states and myriads of private providers that administer the bulky healthcare. In the past year the Audit office has found GPs paid more than $83M on a communications standard which did not exist and that Medicare digital certificate issued to doctors could not be used for authentication
Head of Public Health Association of Australia, Helen Keleher, urged a federal rethink on Medicare Local as an outlet to educate people most at risk of poor health.
The newly established AHPRA Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has issued an ultimatum to doctors to register by the end of October or risk a halt to run their practise from 1 November onwards.
GPs criticised the handling of notifications by AHPRA, saying that letters sent out to doctor contained no "important" lettehead.
Mental health champion and Australian of the Year, Professor Patrick McGorry, has called for suicide tolls to be released daily on newspaper like road death toll.
Counter Oktoberfest with Ocsober - time to educate Australians on the benefits of sobering up - http://www.ocsober.com.au
More than 1000 health professionals in southeast QLD are expected to march to Parliament house on strike this Thursday, abandoning their duties at public hospitals to rally for better outcome on industrial issues.
WA Premier Colin Barnett has once again scorned the federal hospital funding amidst criticims that his government is spending more on resources projects than health. WA Opposition Leaer Eric Ripper says that as difficult as it is, there must be more effort in reaching an agreement on the federal plan.
VIC Coalition to invest $4M to improve safety of Victorian psychiatric wards after women alleged they were being harrased and raped by male patients. Chairwoman of Victoria Women and Mental Health Network, Heather Clarke, welcomed the investment, saying that not enough has been done by the govt to implement the segregation of patients and developing a gender sensitive approach in mental health policy.
ACT Health Minister Katy Gallagher reveals a COAG recommendation for a governing council to be formed for the running of local hospital network in Canberra. Unfortunately IR issues is blocking Queanbeyan hospital from being incorporated into this network.
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Estle Iskandar
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