WA: Labor plan not clear, AMA

AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-2007
WA: Labor plan not clear, AMA

The AMA says KEVIN RUDD hasn't clearly explained how the funds will be spent .. in
his proposed two billion dollar health plan.

If elected .. Mr RUDD will establish a National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission
by early next year .. with two billion dollars to invest in the health system.

And the plan could see control of public hospitals taken away from the states .. if
they don't sign up and achieve targets .. including cutting hospital waiting lists.

AMA President ROSANNA CAPOLINGUA has asked if the funds will go to administration and
bureaucracy .. or into Emergency Departments.







Dr CAPOLINGUA says the way to shorten hospital waiting lists is to have more beds.

And she believes the states can react to their own health needs better than the Commonwealth.

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