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Exodus of surgeons 'jeopardising public hospital operations'
Sydney :: Australia | 1 day ago
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The report warns that the rise in private hospitals has meant the issue of how to ensure all people can get surgery and other procedures becomes ''a major consideration''. One of the report's authors is the Government's top health reform adviser, Christine...
Tags: public hospitals, Medicare Select, private hospitals, health care, health reform, public health, Australia, Sydney, Health Medical Pharma, Healthcare, Health economics, United States National Health Care Act, Healthcare reform, Social Issues, Healthcare reform in the United States, Medicare, Health insurance, Publicly-funded health care
News Analysis: Deal Will Turn a Los Angeles Hospital Private
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 8 days ago
Credibility The role of public hospitals in America has been remarkably consistent over the decades, in spite of health care policy debates, insurance trends and shifting medical advice. They were centers of last resort, where the quality of care could be inconsistent...
Tags: Martin Luther King, Jr., South Los Angeles, University of California Regents, Los Angeles County, public hospitals, Los Angeles, Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, Public hospital, Uninsured in the United States, Health care system, Medicaid, Healthcare reform in the United States, Health economics, Los Angeles County California, Health Medical Pharma
State looks to 'buy' surgery
Victoria :: Canada | 11 days ago
Credibility THE State Government is considering buying more surgery from private hospitals in an attempt to make up for critical problems in the public health system. But doctors have criticised the plan as short-sighted, saying it should not be adopted as a substitute...
Tags: AMA Victoria, public hospitals, private hospitals, private sector, Canada, Victoria, Hospital, Public hospital, Health care system, Medical tourism, Health economics, Healthcare, Health policy, Health Medical Pharma
Hospitals distort mortality rates
Adelaide :: Australia | 18 days ago
Credibility The Productivity Commission is comparing the outcomes of private and public hospitals. It released a "discussion draft" last month and will publish a full report in December. In a submission to the study, SA Health outlines data shortcomings, inconsistencies...
Tags: SA Health, public hospitals, distorting mortality, Australia, Adelaide, Hospitals, Public hospital, Health Medical Pharma
FS medical school may close
Bloemfontein :: South Africa | about 1 month ago
Credibility The University of the Free State's medical school is in danger of being closed down, its acting head told Parliament on Wednesday. "There is a real issue of whether the school of medicine should be closed down in the Free State," Andries Stulting told...
Tags: Parliament, public hospitals
Latest damning report card won't prompt health takeover
Ama :: LA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility report card shows increases in Government funding have failed to reduce elective surgery waiting lists and no state or territory is meeting acceptable benchmarks for emergency department performance. During the last election campaign Prime Minister Kevin...
Tags: public hospitals, report card
Qld hospitals have 'hidden waiting list'
Ama :: LA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility latest report card for public hospitals found the system in Queensland does not have the capacity to cope with increasing demand or to meet recommended performance targets. The AMA has called for the Commonwealth to take over the funding responsibility...
Tags: Indonesian, Australian Broadcasting Corp., public hospitals, South Australia, Mr Rudd, sri lankan, asylum seekers, emergency departments, Kevin Rudd
Hospitals fail on time benchmarks
Ama :: LA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Victorians failed to get emergency care within clinically appropriate times during the past financial year and another 22,000 waited too long for elective surgery...And despite the addition of 400 beds to the hospital system, demand continued to outstrip...
Tags: elective surgery, Australian Medical Association NSW, public hospitals, surgery waiting, emergency departments
Hospitals are sick: Rudd
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Australian Medical Association today released its report card, saying many hospitals failed to reach performance benchmarks. "I basically agree with them," Mr Rudd told reporters in Murray Bridge, east of Adelaide. "There is a real problem out there....
Tags: Indonesian, sri lankan, asylum seekers, Australian Medical Association, lankan asylum, Christmas Island, gas canisters, reporters card, public hospitals
The Mercury, Australia: State hospital stampede
Sydney :: Australia | 2 months ago
Credibility S public hospitals have borne the brunt of a record influx of patients during the past winter. The Royal Hobart and Launceston General hospitals recorded the largest influx of emergency patients in July since records began about 30 years ago. The hospitals...
Tags: Australian Nursing Federation Tasmanian, Royal Hobart Hospital, public hospitals, Australia, Sydney
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