[AusNOG] NBN Co CEO Quigley Speech 20100818

[Skeeve Stevens]

Actually no.  Keeping people out of hospitals is what will save hospitals.

The actual hospital capacity isn't the major issue, the issues are:

- people filling it up unnecessarily
- poor equipment
- not enough quality staff
- Diagnostic medicine companies charging a ton

You fix those things and hospitals.

The ideas that have been floated so that nurses can prescribe certain types of medications, do home visits and deal with most triage issues are what is needed.

Community Nursing, Online doctors (I'd like to know more about this one), and nationalisation of the hospital system is what we need.



...Skeeve

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-
> bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of James Spenceley
> Sent: Friday, 20 August 2010 2:17 PM
> To: John Edwards
> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NBN Co CEO Quigley Speech 20100818
> 
> 
> On 19/08/2010, at 7:14 PM, John Edwards wrote:
> 
> >
> > The solution to Australia's health is to do what it takes to keep
> people out of Hospitals, not spend more money on buildings for sick
> people.
> 
> Call me old fashioned but I think spending money on buildings for sick
> people and creating a culture which encourages their use, is an
> excellent thing for a government to do.
> 
> --
> James
> 
> 
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