Productivity Commission Should Examine Productivity In Public Hospitals

2017-11-06T18:57:31+11:00March 17th, 2005|News|

"The Federal Government's decision to ask the Productivity Commission to study Australia's medical workforce will be a lost opportunity unless it centres on our greatest existing and future health problem. Namely, the declining productivity of our public hospitals", Dr John Harrison, Federal Chairman of the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons [...]

Surgical Waiting Lists – A Funding Problem

2017-11-06T18:44:04+11:00February 13th, 2003|News|

"It is easy to believe that the problems of the Australian public hospital system would be solved tomorrow by simply doubling the number of surgeons being trained," said Dr John Harrison, National Chairman of the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons (ASOS). A recent ACCC draft determination on the future training [...]

Surgeons Unable to Operate; Waiting Times Blow Out

2017-11-06T18:41:48+11:00October 18th, 2000|News|

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 the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons found that Australian orthopaedic [...]

Emergency Patients Waiting Weeks for an Operation Says Sydney Surgeon

2017-11-06T18:24:56+11:00July 7th, 2000|News|

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 the delays recently led to a 28 year old woman [...]

Health Bureaucracy Gone Mad

2017-11-06T18:06:26+11:00December 21st, 1999|News|

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 Bruce was told in two lines of a short letter [...]

Orthopaedic Surgeons Reject Health Fund Intervention In Clinical Care (US Managed Care)

2017-11-06T18:29:23+11:00January 29th, 1999|News|

"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 as Measures of Appropriate Clinical Care (MACC) financed by Australia’s [...]

Angliss Hospital Closes Orthopaedics

2017-11-06T18:09:09+11:00October 21st, 1998|News|

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 the Australian Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons said in Melbourne today. [...]

ACT Government Should Get Back to Collective Bargaining in Public Hospitals

2017-11-06T18:12:09+11:00June 12th, 1998|News|

"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 applied in the ACT public hospitals dispute expects each individual [...]

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