CANBERRA hospitals are performing overwhelmingly the worst in the country, according to the release of two reports.
An Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report and the quarterly ACT Health report confirm that patients in the ACT are waiting longer than all states and territories for hospital treatment.
The numbers are quite concerting in regards to wait times at the emergency department despite remaining steady in some categories but still comparably behind at Canberra Hospital and Cavalry Public Hospital Bruce.
But the ACT government has blamed a lack of Commonwealth funding for affecting the drain on resources.
“There are a range of issues and we would always like to see more funding from the Commonwealth and under a previous Labor government we would have seen the Commonwealth contribution increase to 50 per cent instead of 45 per cent,” Minister for Health Rachel Stephen-Smith said.
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Australian doctors fail to meet standards for hand hygiene at height of pandemic: report (Xinhua) 14:06, December 17, 2020 CANBERRA, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) Australia s doctors and ambulance workers failed to meet national standards for hand hygiene at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, a report has found. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) on Thursday published a report on health services in 2019-20. It revealed that only 79.5 percent of doctors and 74.5 percent of ambulance workers captured in the audit of the public hospital system washed or sanitized their hands when required when the first wave peaked between April and June below the benchmark of 80 percent.
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CANBERRA, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) Australia s doctors and ambulance workers failed to meet national standards for hand hygiene at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, a report has found.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) on Thursday published a report on health services in 2019-20.
It revealed that only 79.5 percent of doctors and 74.5 percent of ambulance workers captured in the audit of the public hospital system washed or sanitized their hands when required when the first wave peaked between April and June below the benchmark of 80 percent.
In response, President of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) Omar Khorshid acknowledged that there was room for improvement.
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Only 79.5 per cent of doctors and 74.5 per cent of ambulance workers captured in the audit washed or sanitised their hands when required.
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If there is one group of people you would expect to be washing their hands properly during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is healthcare professionals.
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But new data released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has revealed doctors and ambulance workers failed to meet national standards for hand hygiene between April and June, as health authorities repeatedly stressed the importance of handwashing to stop the spread of coronavirus.