The House of Representatives has just approved Obama’s healthcare bill 220 -215. The bill will now go to the Senate where the Democrats may have the numbers to pass the bill – assuming all Democrats and the two independents vote for it. Obama needs to get everything passed before the mid-term elections. It is highly [...]
A recent study by Otago university has indicated that there has been an increase in the number of people over the age of 65 being readmitted to hospital or dying within one month of surgery. The study was done comparing the years 2001-2 and 2003-4. The usual expected comments come from the usual people. Grey [...]
Tony Ryall revealed today that the waiting list statistics have been “manipulated” to make them look better than they really are. Nobody who has anything to do with the waiting lists – patients, doctors, admin staff – will be surprised by this. It has been obvious for years that the waiting times are getting worse, [...]
The problem of no-shows in outpatients and operating theatres is a long-standing one. Every now and again it makes the news like today and then, like the Loch Ness Monster, quietly dips its head under the water and disappears. Ian Powell of the Assosiation of Salaried Medical Specialists (the senior doctor’s union), makes his usual [...]
It’s official – we have the worst access to heart surgery in the first world, according to this article! $6 billion dollars in extra health funding and we still don’t have first world access to life-saving operations. And why is this?
Staff shortages in the health sector, especially in intensive care unit nursing, were fingered as [...]
Hat-tip once again to Homepaddock who has made me aware of this article on waiting lists for drug addicts (I am always amazed she manages to blog about so much stuff – does she not sleep?). She rightly points out how this once again illustrates how little difference Labour has made to the health system, [...]
