Angela BelichThursday 24 May 2012, 3:43PM
Media release from the Association of Salaried
Medical Specialists
"The small increases for health in today's budget won't
compensate for increasing cost pressures and government
expectations of DHBs," said Angela Belich Assistant Executive
Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists,
today.
"The effect will be increased workload pressures on senior
hospital doctors, increasing difficulties in providing accessible
high quality services to patients, and serious risks of
burn-out.
There are no longer resources that can be shuffled around in
DHBs without serious consequences to both patients and hospital
staff."