GP Shortage: The Australian: The Article.

The Australian has picked up the story of our campaign.

It is HERE if you are interested.



P.S to Mr. Rudd: we are eagerly awaiting your response to our meeting.



P.P.S To readers of this blog. If you are concerned, please consider signing our e-Petition to the State Government, which can be done HERE.

Deadline Day.

Today is the deadline by which Mr. Rudd himself said to us that Mr. Rod Glover would respond to his office:

"As discussed, my staff have submitted a representation on your behalf to Rod Glover, Senior Advisor in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, to investigate your proposal in detail with a view to national methodology. I have requested he obtain input from the Department of Health and Ageing regarding measurements of GP's and non-specialists across metropolitan areas throughout Australia."

We eagerly await your response being forwarded to us, Mr. Rudd and Mr. Glover.

Conversation: National Health.

ANU Marketing and Communications have an interesting conversation on Health withAssociate Professor Kirsty Douglas (Acting Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute and an educator in general practice at the ANU Medical School) and Professor Bob Wells (Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Executive Director of the ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences.)

You can read the conversation HERE.

NHHRC submission.

You can read our own submission to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission on the GP workforce crisis HERE.

NHHRC submission from an IMG.

An international medical graduate (IMG), or overseas-trained doctor (OTD) in old non-PC speak, has made a submission to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission. She has generously allowed us to post the story of her own perspective on the GP workforce shortage.
Take note of the bureaucratic red-tape that has caused her to suffer a period even longer than the obligatory ten years before she has access to an unrestricted provider number.

You can download and read it at NHHRCIMGsubmission.pdf

P.S. If you have not yet signed our e-Petition, please consider doing so. It can be found HERE.

Mr. Rudd's Response.

We have received a response from Mr. Rudd in relation to our meeting with him at his mobile office on May 10. We discussed with him our suggestions for improving the GP workforce issue (see the link in the sidebar to the Solutions Discussion).

He says:

"As discussed, my staff have submitted a representation on your behalf to Rod Glover, Senior Advisor in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, to investigate your proposal in detail with a view to national methodology. I have requested he obtain input from the Department of Health and Ageing regarding measurements of GP's and non-specialists across metropolitan areas throughout Australia."

Thankyou, Mr. Rudd.

Australian Doctor article.

The weekly Australian Doctor paper ran a column on our campaign, on page 12 of the May 23 edition.

When time allows, it will be typed out!