Doorstops

Transcript: Media Doorstop, AMA President Andrew Pesce, AMA NSW House, Sydney

kwaterford — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:06:41 +1000

Transcript: Media Doorstop, AMA NSW House, St Leonards, Sydney, Thursday 5 August 2010

Subjects: Coalition Health Policy; NSW local health networks

ANDREW PESCE: Thanks for coming. Well there's been a lot of comment that there hasn't been enough health debate in the election so far, but I think it's going to change after today.

Media Alert - Doorstop - Launch of AMA Family Doctor Survey

mmanning — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:07:25 +1000

AMA President Dr Andrew Pesce will today release the results of a comprehensive national survey of patients’ experience with their family doctor.

The survey, the first of its kind in Australia, and conducted by Essential Research, provides timely information about the importance that Australians place on having access to a family doctor.

AMA Vice President Dr Steve Hambleton; AMA NSW President Dr Brian Morton; and AMA ACT President Dr Paul Jones will join Dr Pesce at the launch.

AMA Survey Launch:

Date:              Today, Wednesday 28 April 2010

Time:              11.00am

Venue:            Kingston Family Surgery
                        Giles Street (corner of Jardine Street)
                        KINGSTON ACT

CONTACT: John Flannery 02 6270 5477 / 0419 494 761

Doorstop: AMA response to Government Health Reform Plans

smorrison — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:27:25 +1100

AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, is in Canberra today and will be available for comment on the Government’s health reform plans outside the National Press Club following the Prime Minister’s address.

Dr Pesce will be in Canberra for the rest of the day and will be available for further media interviews upon request.

Dr Pesce Doorstop:

Time:        After Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s National Press Club Address
Date:       Wednesday 3 March 2009
Venue:     Outside the National Press Club

Doorstop by AMA Federal President - Compliance Audits on Medicare benefits

webmaster — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:47:28 +1000

Wednesday 6 May 2009

AMA Federal President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, will hold a Doorstop after giving evidence to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs inquiry into Compliance Audits on Medicare benefits. The AMA is concerned about legislation that will mean doctors can no longer guarantee the privacy of patient records.

National Approach Needed For The Health Care Of Older People

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:27:21 +1100

AMA Vice President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, said that Australia needs a national health framework for the care of older people, which covers all settings where aged care is provided. Dr Haikerwal will help launch the National Aged Care Alliance (NACA) Election Kit in Sydney.

AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson, Parliament House, Canberra - Health Legislation Amendment (Parental Access To Information) Bill 2004

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:36:45 +1100

"Look, the Government's proposal next week to increase the age at which parents can access medical records of their teenage children from 14 to 16, we're coming out very publicly today from the AMA, and I suppose from all doctors in Australia, to say we think this is a bad move," said Dr Bill Glasson. "First and foremost we support the Australian family, we support the Australian family unit and we support a unit in which there's good communication between the teenagers and the parents concerned."

Doorstop - AMA 16th National Conference 2004 - AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson, Sheraton Brisbane - Reviews the Great Health Debate, Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott vs Federal Shadow Health Minister Julia Gillard

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:31:33 +1100

"We've just had a very constructive session this morning with Tony Abbott the Health Minister, and Julia Gillard," Dr Glasson said. "It was an ideal platform with both sides, who'll put their views on a range of issues, particularly around public hospitals - around how they feel they can reform the public health agenda between - public hospital agenda, between the state and federal divide."

Doorstop - AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson, Parliament House, Canberra - Health Budget 2004-05; medical indemnity; pneumococcal vaccine

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 08:12:28 +1100

"We've seen a consolidation budget in relation to health," Dr Bill Glasson said. "From the point of view of the aged care issues, obviously there are good initiatives in that aged care package. We need to look at it in more detail. We particularly want to know how it's going to impact on our public hospitals in relation to getting patients out of public hospitals into aged care facilities. And we'd like to specifically look at these transitional facilities whereby actually patients can access both aged care facilities and move out of public hospitals in a much more smooth way."

Doorstop - AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson and Dr David Meadows, AMA PresidentNorthern Territory Branch, Darwin - Indigenous health; visit to Aboriginal communities in the NT

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 08:12:49 +1100

"When I came up here, we had raised concerns obviously about the statistics around Indigenous health, both around the, I suppose, the longevity of the Indigenous population," Dr Glasson said. "I suppose, the message I'm getting more and more over the last five days is really around trying to get some solution to this overall problem. I'd rather concentrate on the solutions rather than the problems because we all know the statistics. And, I suppose the message I want to get very clearly out there, is that we have to really try and retarget or redirect our resources."

Doorstop AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson, Parliament House, Canberra - AMA has called on the political parties to present health policies that can be evaluated fully by the community; Free Trade Agreement; upcoming Federal election

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 08:03:03 +1100

"Obviously this year is an important year. It's an election year and we raise issues around both the Medicare policies and issues around the workforce," Dr Glasson said. "And in reality this whole election I feel in the area of health will be won or lost on health and will be won or lost on the policies around really how they're going to address this workforce shortage both in specialist and general practice areas."

Doorstop - No Doctors For Overseas Sporting Teams Because Of Medical Indemnity Glitch

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:47:30 +1100

AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson, today called on Health Minister, Tony Abbott, to amend medical indemnity legislation to allow doctors to provide medical care to sporting teams travelling overseas.

Doorstop - AMA Vice President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, Canberra - AMA Submission to the Senate Select Committee into the Future of Medicare and the Medicare Plus package

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:26:41 +1100

"The bulk billing rates is really something we should not be concentrating on. What we have is a system where Australians access high quality medical services, initially by their general practitioners and then the specialist practitioners," said Dr Haikerwal. "The services attract a fee. If the Government rebate does not come up to scratch then obviously the out of pocket fees the patients will face is higher, as rebates increase and improve, then the out of pockets are lower."

Doorstop- Dr Bill Glasson, AMA President, Canberra - Smoke Free Zone Contracts, Medical Idemnity, Medicare

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 08:03:59 +1100

"The issue today I'd like to highlight is the one about smoking. And I say to the people out there who smoke, what's the best present that you can give your children for this Christmas? And I'd suggest to you that it is a smoke free environment, an environment that your children, both at home, in the car, wherever it be in a public place that you do not subject them to the adverse effects of smoking," said Dr Glasson.

Doorstop - Dr Bill Glasson, AMA President - Federal Government's new medical indemnity package

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:44:42 +1100

"I think they've attempted to address the incurred but not reported levy, such that doctors will continue to have to pay some of that levy, but it will not be of such a financial impost that it will make the whole thing unaffordable," said Dr Glasson. "I'd also - the other point is we've tried to get back to a product that gives doctors and patients security into the future, and this concept of the ROV, this run-off vehicle, hopefully will deliver that in its current form."

Doorstop - AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson, Brisbane - AMA response to Federal Government's Medicare changes

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:38:35 +1100

I'd just like to say that the Prime Minister's announcement this morning, and Minister Abbott's announcement in relation to the reforms to the Medicare package, I think, are a move in the right direction. I think it picks up on some of the key areas that we've been lobbying very hard on the Government this is around access and affordability.

Doorstop - AMA Vice President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, Chair, AMACGP, Dr David Rivett, Parliament House, Canberra - Doctors lobby politicians about health policy; Alzheimer's disease

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 08:07:01 +1100

"I have with me a group of doctors from all across Australia. These doctors work in general practice, they know general practice, they know the problems they face as general practitioners, but most importantly they know the problems their patients face in getting medical access an in affordability and the problems that we're going to face providing those services into the future," said Dr Mukesh Haikerwal. "The purpose of these sets of meetings is to meet with politicians here to advise them, from a position of knowledge, what the situation is and, how to fix it."

Doorstop AMA Vice President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal - AMA response to the ALP and Democrat statements on Medicare

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:28:38 +1100

"Obviously the debate around Medicare and the key pillar of our primary health care system is hotting up with the release in a couple of days of the Senate Select Committee's report," said Dr Haikerwal. "We're seeing seen Labor launch their Medicare Hot Spot initiative. And we're seeing some stuff from Democrats, too."

Doorstop - AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson, Parliament House, Canberra - The formation of an expert committee to examine issues in relation to medical indemnity

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:27:44 +1100

"It's very important that we now move forward to an outcome to really focus on the real issue, and that is preserving the medical workforce in this country. And I'm very hopeful, as I say, with the team we have, with the expertise we have both within that committee and also the group that surrounds that committee, that we can actually deliver for the Australian public," said Dr Bill Glasson.

Doorstop - AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson, Parliament House, Canberra - Meeting with Federal Health Minister; withdrawal of IBNR levy notices;establishment of a committee to fully investigate the medical indemnity problem

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:54:17 +1100

"I must reiterate that, coming out of this, the meeting this morning, there is agreement on this task force to be set up, on this expert committee to be set up. And I'm pleased to announce that the Minister himself is going to chair it," said Dr Bill Glasson. "This sends a very important signal to the profession out there, that this is not going to be some sort of bureaucratically heavy process, that this committee will have strict terms of reference and that we will report as of the 10th of December."

Doorstop - AMA President, Dr Bill Glasson, Parliament House, Canberra - The crisis facing the medical profession

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:59:02 +1100

"First of all they've offered to withdraw the levy notices across the board. The levy notices that are currently out there will be withdrawn and they will be re-evaluated further down the line," said Dr Bill Glasson.