Surgeons Unable to Operate; Waiting Times Blow Out
Orthopaedic surgeons in Australia are being denied access to operating theatres in public hospitals and waiting times for surgery are blowing out as a result, a leading doctors group claimed today. A survey of 550 orthopaedic surgeons carried out by [...]
Emergency Patients Waiting Weeks for an Operation Says Sydney Surgeon
Patients with non-life threatening injuries, including elderly patients with hip fractures, are waiting up to three weeks for surgery, an orthopaedic surgeon at Liverpool hospital claimed today. Dr Ian Harris, an orthopaedic surgeon at Liverpool and St George hospitals, said [...]
Application of GST on Orthopaedic Surgeons
This advice will provide a general overview of the legislation and its application to the Health and Medical industries. Overview The GST legislation will come into effect on 1 July 2000 and will apply to the domestic consumption of all [...]
Westmead Tells Hand Surgeon “Specialists Not Welcome”
An experienced hand surgeon at Westmead hospital has been sacked because he wants to specialise in hand surgery. Forty year old Dr David Dilley who studied hand surgery for 12 months at the world famous Louisville, Kentucky Kleinert Hand Surgery [...]
Motor Accidents Authority (NSW)
New Initiatives for Motor Accident Victims The Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999: Implications for Orthopaedic Surgeons The information contained below was scanned from an original document supplied by the NSW Motor Accidents Authority and is reproduced here for the information [...]
Health Bureaucracy Gone Mad
Dr Greg Bruce, an Orthopaedic Surgeon currently serving in East Timor should be allowed to continue as an Honorary Surgeon at Mt Druitt and Blacktown public hospitals where he has worked for the past fifteen years for no payment. Dr [...]
Surgeons Call on MBF to Guarantee the Best Spare Parts for Patients
The Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons today called on the chairman of MBF, Mr John Condie, to personally guarantee that MBF will meet in full the cost of any prostheses which an orthopaedic surgeons believes is the best quality replacement [...]
Surgeons Warn About Cheap Spare Parts for Patients
Any attempt by private health funds to force doctors to use cheap spare parts in patients will be fiercely resisted, chairman of the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Dr John Harrison, said in Sydney today. "Caring doctors will not be [...]
Orthopaedic Surgeons Reject Health Fund Intervention In Clinical Care (US Managed Care)
"Private Health Funds seeking to influence clinical care in Australia will find themselves in conflict with the great majority of practising doctors" Chairman of the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Dr John Harrison, said in Sydney today. A programme known [...]
Angliss Hospital Closes Orthopaedics
Orthopaedic patients at Angliss Hospital in Ferntree Gully, Victoria are the immediate victims in the latest decision to close orthopaedic surgery and not renew the contracts of two experienced orthopaedic surgeons at the hospital Dr Greg Hoy Victorian Chairman of [...]
ACT Government Should Get Back to Collective Bargaining in Public Hospitals
"Competition theory is inappropriate for the resolution of the ACT health dispute between Visiting Medical Officers (VMOs) and the ACT Government", spokesman for the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Mr Stephen Milgate said in Sydney today. "Competition theory being now [...]
ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS SHOCKED AT TRAGIC DEATH OF COLLEAGUES
Chairman of the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Dr John Harrison said that the Orthopaedic community has been shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic deaths of Dr Ian Pike and Dr Lex Bartram and their wives Dr Jane [...]