Doctors Underwhelmed by Emergency Department Review

Published on May 11, 2024

A review into Tasmania’s hospital emergency departments misses key areas, Australia’s peak medical organisation says, insisting state and federal government must do more to improve services.  The state’s health system was struggling under pressures of affordability, staffing and under-resourcing, Australian Medical Association (AMA) Tasmania spokesman Michael Lumsden Steel said. “This report missed several key areas,” Dr. Lumsden Steel told reporters at Calvary Hospital in Hobart. “The report has failed to identify why we have the ED bed flow problems and that’s in-hospital. “That’s to do with our staffing, the actual lack of sub acute beds that we have (and) the staff to have those beds open.”...

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