The whole management of YDHS needs to be sacked! The community doesn't NEED a fancy building to house doctors that are just using the place as a stepping-stone towards getting fully qualified to practice medicine in Australia. The community NEEDS decent doctors that will actually treat patients properly, especially in regard to some medicines. My wife had one of the creep "doctors" actually tell her that he didn't care about her incredible back pain. He said it with much contempt also. If I was there I would've gone to jail for flattening that bastard! NOT every patient is a junkie!!! I left YDHS and my family now have to travel to Sale just to get the care that was BLATANTLY DENIED by the so-called "doctors" that blew in. It's been a disgrace for a LONG time and I've spoken to many people that are VERY angry at being treated (ha!) unfairly by pigs that are supposed to be doctors. YDHS management need to be removed and a formal inquest needs to be held so that the incompetence and waste can be laid bare.
Yarram needs more Doctors
Help build awareness & encourage doctors to come here.
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We need to promote Yarram & surrounds as a great community for doctors to train and/or practice. We need to build awareness and get them here to experience it first hand. Also remove some of the barriers to doctors considering the area, the big one being access to funded accommodation. This project will create a targeted campaign to GPs interested in rural practice, host an event to introduce them to the town and provide a limited range accommodation for new registrars, student doctors and visiting specialists - just enough to get over the critical shortage.
Waiting times to see a doctor are unacceptably long. There are difficulties providing on-call doctors at the Urgent Care Department because there is usually only one doctor available and he can't work 24/7. With Dr Greg Ivanoff as the new Practice Principal of Yarram Medical Centre we now have the credentials & skills to build our base of Doctors but we need to attract & motivate them. The Health Service is responsible for employing the new doctors but the community needs to help find, motivate and facilitate them choosing our town over the many other options available to them.
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Waiting 2 or 3 weeks for an appointment isnt ideal poor staff are doing their best
It must be very stressful on the current medical practioners and hospital staff with the lack of doctors.
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14 Sep 2018
Doctor Greg Ivanoff and the ancillary staff at the Yarram Medical Centre are doing an outstanding job as far as providing treatments and patient support goes, but there's a desperate need to have more permanent doctors on staff, rather than a stream of transient, short-term doctors. These doctors undoubtedly provide a competent service, but never get the opportunity to really "know" their patients, particularly the patient's own unique outlook on their treatment, state of health, and drug regime.
Patients deserve and need to develop a rapport and personalised medical history with their particular doctor in the longer term, but at the moment it's sometimes the case that one sees six different doctors in six months.
I'd regard some sort of financial initiative as a prerequisite for attracting full-time doctors to Yarram, possibly in the areas of subsidised housing and vehicles, or family relocation costs. Any dependent children would also be guaranteed a place in a primary school or the secondary college.