What do you do if a family member gets sick over the weekend, when doctor's surgeries are closed ?
You phone the Radio Doctors service - and one of the rostered local doctors makes a house call, treats the patient - and bulk bills the call.
What do you do if the Radio Doctors service closes down ?
Call an ambulance - or put the sick person in the car and take them to the hospital's emergency department.
We have emergency departments groaning under the pressure, and yet NSW health is planning to cut funding for the Radio Doctors service for a two year period - meaning it will be financially unviable - and will probably be disbanded.
The work carried out by Radio Doctors will pass to the new " Medicare Locals ", supposedly working out of the new Superclinics - but this will not get under way until 2013. - and there are indications that these Superclinics will not operate 24/7.
It simply goes to show that the opinion held by many people is correct.
The mob we have running health would not be capable of successfully raffling a duck !
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