Australia’s healthcare system is on life support, and Dr. Belinda Doherty is ready to expose the truth.
GP lays bare the ‘bureaucratic inertia’ and 'systemic inefficiencies' in the Australian healthcare system denying patients the best possible care
This role involves providing comprehensive primary care, diagnosing and treating a wide range of medical conditions, and coordinating patient care across various specialties. View from behind of four doctors in hospital corridor walking away from camera. Medical team in modern hospital corridor wearing surgical scrubsAccording to Dr. Doherty, “The small local hospitals have suffered neglect of infrastructure and of clinical workforce for many years, resulting in lower than currently accepted standards of care and the resultant harms, as well as lost opportunity for quality care to patients.
“A patient here may fail to get an opportunity to access the right care,” she says. When clinicians raise alarms, the response is bureaucratic obfuscation: endless risk assessments, consultant reports, and micromanagement schemes that burden frontline workers while failing to address root problems. “We are now more worried about the feelings of clinicians who are told it is safe to expand their scope of practice,” she explains, “than about being sensible and ensuring an adequate skill base.”
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