Media
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05 Mar 2020
Topic: coronavirus, general practice, emergency departments
Dr Tony Bartone - ABC News - Coronavirus prevention
GPs and hospitals are being stretched to the limit as they keep the community safe from coronavirus, AMA President Dr Tony Bartone says. -
30 Jan 2018
Topic: Productivity Commission, Report on Government Services, emergency departments, general practice, codeine
Transcript - Dr Gannon - 2GB - Productivity Commission report
The Productivity Commission has found that 3000 patients present to emergency departments each day when they should be seeing their GP. In an ideal world, the right patients would go to the right place for treatment, AMA President Dr Michael Gannon has told Ben Fordham on 2GB.
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17 Feb 2017
Topic: public hospitals, elective surgery, emergency departments
Public hospitals in state of emergency
Australia's public hospitals are failing to meet targets, and are even going backwards, as a result of inadequate and uncertain Commonwealth funding, the AMA Public Hospital Report Card 2017 shows.