[AusNOG] NBN Co CEO Quigley Speech 20100818

[Mark Smith]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:04:21 +1000
Skeeve Stevens <Skeeve at eintellego.net> wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
> 

Actually, what we need is more healthy people, because they don't need
to go to a doctor or a hospital. Reducing the obesity rate would help
significantly. 



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> ...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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