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National Registration and Accreditation – The Trojan Horse
Unwanted Federal Bureaucratic Control According to RMIT Economics Professor
Fears of political control of professional standards Alarming growth of Australian regulation
WA Slashes Health Budget
New Computer Surgical Game
Calls to Slash Civil Service
Bring back the Ward Sister
Health Under Labor: Reform or Nationalisation
Submission: No Compelling Case for COAG/IGA model of National Registration & Accreditation
There is no compelling case or public demand for changing the way doctors have traditionally been educated, trained and recognised. The national interest requires public confidence in the medical profession. Any attempt to de-medicalise the Australian medical workforce will generate public anxiety and uncertainty at a time when Australians want security and predictability. The COAG/IGA proposals should be rejected as there is no compelling case for their implementation.
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Say No to Nationalisation
We have been told by Minister Roxon that uniform registration will lead to the avoidance of such occurrences as that which happened in Bega recently. If the New South Wales Medical Board and New South Wales Health cannot get it right in their own State what nonsense to say that a bureaucracy in Canberra will do a better job on, say standards in far away Darwin or Western Australia. The truth of the matter is that this is a grab by the federal bureaucrats to take control of the profession and to dumb down its standards to fit their perceived needs of the community. No longer would we be a profession but simply a workforce.
NSW Medical Practice Amendment Act (2008)
The Australian Doctors' Fund is campaigning for changes to the legislation to restore the common law rights of NSW medical practitioners. Failures by hospital administrators and others, despite warnings and complaints by the profession should not result in scapegoating of hardworking ethical doctors.
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