New staff will triage patients in Victorian hospitals and offload them from ambulances more quickly to reduce emergency waiting times and free up hospital beds. | By Ashleigh McMillan and Cara Waters covid19
The state government will hire a “strike force” of 400 staff to triage patients in Victorian hospitals and offload them from ambulances more quickly.On any given day Andrews said 2,000 health care workers are off sick whether with COVID-19 or other illnesses.A strike force of 400 staff will triage patients in Victorian hospitals and offload them from ambulances more quickly to reduce emergency waiting times and free up hospital beds.
The staff will be deployed across 12 hospitals including Royal Melbourne Hospital, Monash Medical Centre and University Hospital in Geelong. The Australian Medical Association’s Victorian president, Roderick McRae, said the new staff could be sourced from existing healthcare workers and the private sector.“There has to be an advertising and recruitment campaign, but in the very short term, there may be some people who are not working full-time who can step up to increasing their hours,” he said.
The staffing measure is part of a package which includes the creation of two paediatric GP respiratory clinics to combat surges in flu and COVID-19 in children. Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas said healthcare workers knew it was going to be a “tough winter”, with the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron suvariants proving to be highly infectious, alongside surges in influenza.
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