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Victoria deserves compensation on health reform
16th March, 2010
16 March 2010. The Victorian public hospital system should receive $1.5 billion of infrastructure grants in compensation for state funding inequities under the Prime Minister’s proposed hospital reform plan, says AMA Victoria. Under the Feder...
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Here’s a tip for improving health with a politically popular tax (Croakey, opinion editorial)
15th March, 2010
15 March 2010. It seems increasingly unlikely that the PM’s grand plans for hospital reform will lead to meaningful changes anytime soon. In the meantime, there is plenty the Government could be doing to improve the community’s health, ar...
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Health refrom threatens rural hosptials
12th March, 2010
12 March 2010. The Federal Government’s plan to abandon block-grant funding and introducing activity-based funding for Victoria’s rural hospitals funding would threaten their viability, according to AMA Victoria. AMA Victoria President D...
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Time to discuss organ donation
21st February, 2010
21 February 2010. Doctors today urged Victorians to learn more about how they can save lives through organ donation and discuss their decision about becoming an organ donor with their family. "Australian Organ Donation Awareness Week, which begi...
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A proposal for improving casemix funding, Victorian-style (Croakey, opinion editorial)
17th February, 2010
16 February 2010. While we’re on the subject of hospitals, and how to fund and run them, Dr Harry Hemley has some suggestions for improving Victoria’s casemix funding that he believes may have application nationally. Hemley, a GP in Melb...
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Jennings warns men to be vigilant about their health - from the Minister for Environment & Climate Change
14th February, 2010
14 February 2010. Having recently returned to work after suffering a heart attack, Environment, Climate Change and Innovation Minister Gavin Jennings today urged middle-aged men to be aware that no matter how healthy they think they are, they should h...
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GP sick parade getting longer (Geelong Advertiser, opinion editorial)
12th February, 2010
12 February. By Dr Harry Hemley. Gaining timely access to a GP when you are sick has been problem for Geelong and the surf coast for more than a decade and new data suggests it could get a lot worse. In a recent survey, more than one third of countr...
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Good medicine for the bush (Ballarat Courier, opinion editorial)
12th February, 2010
12 February 2010. By Dr Harry Hemley. Gaining timely access to a GP when you are sick has been problem for the Ballarat and district community for more than a decade and new data suggests it could get a lot worse. In a recent survey, more than one t...
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Rural GPs sick and tired (Shepparton News, opinion editorial)
11th February, 2010
11 February 2010. By Dr Harry Hemley. Gaining timely access to a GP when you are sick has been problem for the Goulburn Valley community for more than a decade and new data suggests it could get a lot worse. In a recent survey, more than one third o...
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Country Victoria needs medical workforce rescue plan
8th February, 2010
08 February 2010. Rural Victoria could lose one third of its medical workforce unless the Victorian Government funds a rural medical workforce rescue package in the May budget, says AMA Victoria. A recent AMA Victoria survey found that 37 per cent o...
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A popular tax?
31st January, 2010
31 January 2010. By Dr Harry Hemley The conventional wisdom is that any Treasurer who raises taxes on beer and smokes is dead meat politically. While this wisdom may still hold for alcohol, increased taxes on cigarettes is now a political winner &mda...
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Death and taxes (Sunday Herald Sun, letter to the editor)
31st January, 2010
31 January 2010. Conventional wisdom is that a treasurer who raises taxes on beer and smokes is dead meat politically. This may hold for alcohol, but increased taxes on cigarettes is now a political winner. When voters punished governments for increa...
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Doctors welcome new Parliamentary Secretary for Health
20th January, 2010
20 January 2010. AMA Victoria today welcomed the appointment of Ms Janice Munt as Victoria’s new Parliamentary Secretary for Health. Dr Stephen Parnis, AMA Victoria Vice President, said the timing of Ms Munt’s appointment was parti...
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New doctors for Victoria’s public hospitals
13th January, 2010
13 January 2010. AMA Victoria President Dr Harry Hemley today welcomed Victoria’s 557 new doctors to the public hospital system. Dr Hemley congratulated the new interns on the transition from medical school to the public hospital system and sai...
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Cooling subsidies needed to protect elderly in heat
11th January, 2010
11 January 2010. AMA Victoria today called on the Brumby Government to protect the elderly against heat-related illness and death by subsidising the cost of cooling aids such as air conditioners for Victorians aged over 75. The $37 million proposal...
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Health precautions in the heat
9th January, 2010
09 January 2010. Temperatures across the state are expected to soar over the next few days and doctors are urging Victorians to take precautions to avoid heat exhaustion and dehydration. AMA Victoria President Dr Harry Hemley said Victorians may nee...