Massive stress. Hospitalisation and ICU levels have been higher in the past but it is constant and at a level that continues to put major stress on an exhausted workforce, not just frontline staff but all support services as well. For example sick leave normally runs at around 5% in hospitals and it is at 12-13% with COVID protocols in place.@Sintiger, Australia is close to leading the world in COVID infections/deaths right now but there is sweet fa being said about it. How are the hospitals coping? Still under stress or are we letting the unvaxxed die at home?
What we need is long term planning of service capacity. Not just physical capacity but workforce which includes right back to universities and the medical specialist colleges as well as the commonwealth. Medicare has to offer more incentives to GPs so that bulk billing clinics can survive and doctors get attracted to primary care.
Yes I am not sure where the commonwealth gets that information from to be honest. If any Medicare card holder goes to a GP then Medicare will have a record of the visit and that they have paid the rate as designated by the item number either to the clinic or as a reimbursement to the individual patient.However I have no idea how they would know if the clinic had charged the patient a co-payment or not?Just to pick up on this point, we need to stop the lies being told about the proportion of GP visits which are really bulk billed. We constantly get distorted numbers on this and it does not good.
The whole health system needs some serious thought into how it can be better organised and properly funded.
The COVID pandemic has highlighted this but unfortunately I see little evidence any politicians are learning.
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Yes I am not sure where the commonwealth gets that information from to be honest. If any Medicare card holder goes to a GP then Medicare will have a record of the visit and that they have paid the rate as designated by the item number either to the clinic or as a reimbursement to the individual patient.However I have no idea how they would know if the clinic had charged the patient a co-payment or not?
Maybe they collect that information but if they do it would be survey data because they wouldn’t know from the claims data they get because the co-payment is a transaction between the patient and the clinic.
According to the College of GPs and the AMA the standard consultation rate needs to be $56 and it is currently $39.10. I am not sure whether that number is right or wrong but I am sure $39.10 is not enough.
The Libs see Medicare as a safety net.I saw an article about this, apparently something to do with a co-payment. The doctor bulk bills Medicare, the patient also makes a co-payment. While the government can find the info about co-payments, they don't, because it makes the bulk billing numbers artificially high.
It has been clear for years that the payment to GPs is too low but they won't fix it. Has a lot to do with the current government wanting Medicare to effectively be a welfare system which is only provided to means tested recipients rather than a universal health system which is what Medicare is supposed to be.
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And killed hundreds of thousands in the USA. Not sure which mass murder events have been worse. This one is up there.More bad news about Dr @lamb22 's ivermectin prescribing heros, Americas Frontline Doctors. It were all a scam lamby, just like I told you.
Would be great if Fox News got wiped out by the very misinformation it provided.
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Hang on, didn’t Slomo say recently that he “saved Australia”?CDC now recommending everyone over 50 gets a second booster. This is in addition to those over 65. Data showing the need after big increases in infections, new strains etc. and vax effectiveness dropping off after 4 months. Number of boosted 50+ getting sick is on the increase.
Crickets in Australia.
Plaxlovid being dispensed in the USA en masse for infected individuals with co morbidities over age 50. Seems to be very effective.
Again, crickets in Australia in respect of Plaxlovid supplies and a completely stuffed roll out with what stocks we do have available to use on high risk people as well. GP’s etc saying it’s a disaster.
Sooner we get rid of this **** government the better.
CDC now recommending everyone over 50 gets a second booster. This is in addition to those over 65. Data showing the need after big increases in infections, new strains etc. and vax effectiveness dropping off after 4 months. Number of boosted 50+ getting sick is on the increase.
Crickets in Australia.
Plaxlovid being dispensed in the USA en masse for infected individuals with co morbidities over age 50. Seems to be very effective.
Again, crickets in Australia in respect of Plaxlovid supplies and a completely stuffed roll out with what stocks we do have available to use on high risk people as well. GP’s etc saying it’s a disaster.
Sooner we get rid of this **** government the better.
Yeah. I know its been on the PBS for a while, but nobody (esp high risk people) know about its existence coz there's been no information released, and therefore nobody also knows who qualifies for it, how to get access to it, what stocks there are and where etc etc. This includes GP's.
That's terrible. But how old were the parents? 110?Two people I know have lost a parent to COVID in the last week. Both in their 80s and both in aged care.