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• Puppeteer to puppets - your time has come.I will pull your strings and you will dance on the stage.

  Posted by Joe Kosterich 6/11/2009 3:39:37 PM

• What is so bad about the Australian Health system that we need to have all these “reforms”? Remember that Australia is one of the healthiest country in the world and that is not due to the good genes of the Australians.

  Posted by Ling 6/11/2009 4:05:19 PM

• If it wasn't such a tragedy it'd be funny. Obviously the minister is too young to have watched 'Yes, Minister'.

  Posted by Margret 6/11/2009 4:06:29 PM

• Just read the article about Divisions and the future of General Practice.

  Time to retire

  Posted by John Delaney 6/11/2009 4:07:54 PM

• Margaret, maybe Nicola Roxon hasn't watched "Yes, Minister", but clearly her minders have. How about this - "The Minister for Health and Ageing said today - thank the doctors, nurses and midwives for their constructive engagement to date to ensure these new opportunities for nurses and midwives are implemented in an integrated fashion for the benefit of patients."

  Bernard would remind you that what Sir Humphrey refers to as "constructive engagement" is usually called being subjected to torrents of invective!

  Posted by Alex Hope 6/11/2009 6:42:14 PM

• AGPN has become a total embarrassment and will hopefully wither and

  die. Its recent idiotic press statement says Medicare pays doctors to

  see patients and there is currently no incentive to improve patients

  health. Well not in my neck of the woods. Hasn't AGPN ever heard of

  private practice? In private practice the patient pays the doctor, not

  Medicare, and the breaking news is that unless you improve the

  patient's health they don't come back. There are problems in the

  system for sure but setting up inefficient regional bureaucracies with

  executives with laptops, mobile phones, annual conferences and taxi

  vouchers will not help. AGPN has no GP members and is starting to

  really irritate at least one GP.

  Posted by Donald Rose Summerdale Medical Centre Launceston 6/11/2009 8:26:43 PM

• This is what you get when you elect a government who has no idea what they are doing.

  Posted by Joe 6/11/2009 10:15:04 PM

• COMPULSORY READING FOR NICOLA ...and all those who remain deluded that it is the role of government to "give" health care to every Australian. DR BRIAN BEDKOBER has written a magnificent book : "PROBLEMS WITH HEALTH CARE DELIVERY : GOVERNMENT AS CAUSE NOT CURE" Read it and weap.

  Posted by GEORGE QUITTNER 11/11/2009 9:48:19 AM

• Dear Australian general practitioners,

  Griffith University is undertaking a nationwide survey in an attempt to explore Australian general practitioners' World Wide Web, Internet and Social Media / Web 2.0 usage to deliver health care in the early 21st century. This survey is the first Australia wide study into general practitioners’ usage trends and impact associated with such modern communication applications and health care delivery.

  Specifically this study will,

  (1) Ascertain the degree to which Australian GPs use the World Wide Web and the Internet (Web 1.0) for health care delivery,

  (2) Determine to what degree Social Media (Web 2.0) applications play in the delivery of health care by Australian GPs,

  (3) Investigate why Australian GPs recommend certain health websites over others and

  (4) Determine the level of influence pharmaceutical companies have on health website recommendations and drug prescribing made by Australian GPs to the health consumer.

  Your involvement in this 15 minute survey is sought and your comments would be greatly appreciated. Please use the below web link for direct access to the online survey. This web link can be placed into the address bar and accessed. This survey will be active from 29.9.09 until 30.11.09.

  http://prodsurvey.rcs.griffith.edu.au/AustGP/survey

  Again, your input is greatly appreciated.

  Dr Wayne Usher & Assoc/Prof James Skinner

  Correspondence: w.usher@griffith.edu.au

  The researchers have no affiliations with any pharmaceutical company, government department or marketing corporation

  Ethical approval for this study was obtained through the Griffith University Human Research Ethics Committee - GU Ref No: EPS/15/05/HREC. Questions pertaining to any ethical considerations can be directed to: Dr Gary Allen - Manger, Research Ethics - g.allen@griffith.edu.au

  Posted by Dr Wayne Usher 21/11/2009 2:29:10 PM

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