Let it die, just don’t be seen killing it: The silent policy behind rural procedural decline Rural hospitals are hollowing out — open in name, empty in service. We chase ‘system safety’ while communities left unsafe? @maritacowie.bsky.social @racgppresident.bsky.social @croakeynews.bsky.social

$265M GP training (400+spots) $205M GP reg sal incentives $44M GP trainee entitlements $44M John Flynn placements $48M 100+ CSP med students $3.5B tripling bulk bill incentives $500M women’s health Total =3.9B What’s rest of 8.5B pledged for? @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @racgppresident.bsky.social

My latest for @aunz.theconversation.com about the warnings from health authorities to protect against mosquito bites and Japanese encephalitis virus

It seems like their nuclear policy has detonated right in their own hands—proof that poor planning can be more explosive than the weapons!!

The nation’s capital is short of GPs, imagine the plight of Rural Remote! Aus has to accept the fact that It cannot be self sufficient with GPs for the foreseeable future. Our strategy has to FOCUS on how BEST to manage it @racgppresident.bsky.social @maritacowie.bsky.social

‘Drugs are bad becomes people who use drugs are bad’ NSW Drug Summit 2024. ‘I worry that people will find out - I become Megan the drug user, this robs us of our humanity, you can’t help but absorb this shame…the fundamental sense of being wrong and not belonging…’ Megan Moses

Sadly, in hospitals I see many grounded astronauts and caged eagles. Specialists and clinicians who are gifted and trained to reach the stars but shackled by the burden of administration for which they were not trained for. Complete mismatch. Loss of purpose, value and training.

Popping up GP services in areas of market failure should be a collaboration between PHNs, Local Health Services & GPs. Define it as a service not a business @racgppresident.bsky.social @maritacowie.bsky.social

A perennial issue: antimicrobial stewardship and the looming catastrophe of widespread antimicrobial resistance in the community. My thoughts: www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clini...

So many of my patients leave tertiary hospitals without understanding what was wrong or what was done. Plain language explanations are essential for continuity of care—and for patients to truly understand their health journey. #HealthLiteracy #PatientCare” @racgppresident.bsky.social

145 of 295 psychiatrists in the NSW public hospitals want to resign over workforce shortages & pay. 1/3 of current vacancies are not filled or filled by locums with no continuity of care www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

A romp through a complex thesis in a 20 min mixed audience thesis presentation. How important is “chat” in the medical workplace? Of course I had to leave things out but thesis is open access. www.medicalrepublic.com.au/why-gps-work...

Access to Termination of Pregnancy: NSW Minister says “no ban”, LHDs escape with secrecy & role delineation etc. What I want to hear is 👉🏼Access(equitable) 👉🏼Remove variation based on LHDs, LHD based preference 👉🏼Open - Published referral pathways based on State guidelines

Allen Yung's Golden Rules of ID. Copied over from the Other Place for @kottonnelson.bsky.social #IDSky

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