Editorial
Welcome to the May 2013 edition of i2P - Information to pharmacists.
Economic turbulence seems to now be arriving in Australia with forecasts of high inflation rates, which also means high interest rates following on.
This type of economic forecast also means that banks will be more fractious with their borrowers. They are already offside with pharmacy due to the high level of bankruptcies over the past two years.
There is a pent up demand for a general wage increase for pharmacists impacting at a point in this month where pharmacy gross profit generally, is in decline.
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Health Politics
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If anyone has ever been a patient in a hospital and tried the buzzer to get assistance from a nurse, then here is a new innovation to get attention. Man rings triple-0 from hospital bed Source: ABC Online by Cate Grant
Not that the nursing fraternity should shoulder the blame.
It's the politicians and the lack of political will to solve this issue and many others.
Congratulations to the patient and his initiative in dialling triple O.
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The hospital has moved high-dependency patients to a different area.
A man who was bleeding after surgery in a Tasmanian hospital had to call the triple-0 emergency number for help when he could not raise nurses.
The man woke from surgery in the Hobart Private Hospital to find he was bleeding from a wound drain.
After no-one responded to the nurse call bell or a phone call to the nurses' station, the patient resorted to calling the emergency number.
The hospital said the situation was unavoidable and occurred at a time when all nurses were busy with other patients.
The hospital has since moved high-dependency patients to another area.
The man took his case to the Tasmania's Health Complaints Commission which has recorded a 30 per cent increase in the number of complaints against health services.
The commission dealt with 243 complaints last financial year, mostly involving treatment, a lack of communication, difficult access and long waiting times.
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