Achieving Consultative Party Status

Achieving specialist status.

Towards achieving civilised status for state hospitals.

"Every day young doctors and the nursing staff working in public sector hospital wards are forced to take the most degrading decision of allocating patients to the floor. Human dignity, care and compassion, as very clearly stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the guiding principles of the Commonwealth Medical Association and in the SLMA Declaration on Health, are surely the righ...

Achieving professional status: Australian podiatrists' perceptions

BACKGROUND This paper explores the notion of professional status from the perspective of a sample of Australian podiatrists; how it is experienced, what factors are felt to affect it, and how these are considered to influence professional standing within an evolving healthcare system. Underpinning sociological theory is deployed in order to inform and contextualise the study. METHODS Data wer...

Coagulation: consultative hemostasis.

Clinical hematologists are frequently consulted for the care of hospitalized patients with complicated coagulopathies. This chapter provides an update on the scientific and clinical advances noted in disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and discusses the challenges in hemostasis consultation. In Section I, Dr. Marcel Levi reviews advances in our understanding of the pathogenic mechanism...

Consultative paper on SEPA Incentives

This document is prepared as a basis for consultation and discussion with all stakeholders. It does not prejudge the final form nor content of any decision or position to be taken by the Commission.