THE Australasian College of
Emergency Medicine has
downplayed suggestions in today’s
Daily Telegraph that emergency
departments are swamped by
patients with non-urgent conditions
who could be seen by a GP.
NSW college chair, Dr Richard
Paoloni, described the suggestion
as a “myth” which has resurfaced
as governments discuss the
National Health Reform package.
He said it’s an “ambit claim”
from tne NSW government seeking
extra funding for emergency
services which the state has been
paying for because of allegedly
underfunded general practice.
“The few GP type patients are
treated rapidly - they don’t block
beds, don’t delay ambulances and
require very little medical or nursing
resource,” he said.
Paoloni said that NSW Health
had sought “almost no clinician
advice” regarding the National
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