Sunday update – recap on Vic outbreak, implications for WA & healthcare workers who need proper lawful OH&S now pls.
Link to video is here : https://youtu.be/FDS50QA-j90
Comment: The failure over PPE is still with us and will continue putting our lives at risk in a second wave.
We are performing unsafe work as a result of our moral code to care for patients, writes Dr Andrew Miller
PPE is just like a condom. If it doesn’t fit, everyone is worse off. All states MUST be fit testing N95 masks NOW while we have time. (Guess who standard masks typically DON’T fit? Yep, women & minorities). Listen to this ABC AM report…
A great piece from ABC Radio National today, featuring Tasmanian AMA President Dr John Burgess, who has been at the
Op-ed : Is psychological safety a valid consideration when dispensing basic PPE? Tension at the junction of science & culture & caregiver bullying.
The Science of Physical Safety Who deserves a mask? Telescope straight to the scientific policy answer from the Australian and
The only experts on this disease are the ones treating it – this news from London, useful for docs & nurses. For others, it is a glimpse into how we work, what we face.
This webinar info is being widely circulated – by buying time in Oz we can absorb and implement this sort
Today’s media : Twiggy Forrest changes the game; Border closures great; tests need to start in private pathology like Q, Vic; stop restrictions on PPE for HCW & more.
AMA WA has been working alongside Government with Dr Andrew Forrest & Prof Peter Leedman from the Harry Perkins Research
We should always defend doctors & other HCW’s right to not be pushed into unsafe practice, esp when little PPE. If patients have a safer accessible alternative, it must be used first.
It is an odd experience to be publicly thanked by the Federal Health Minister and then chastised by the State
Today’s media : there is no disaster that cannot be made harder to handle by the arrival of sick patients into an under prepared facility with no notice to doctors & nurses. Preposterous.
A health problem cannot be solved if there is political interference in placing the patients in the most appropriate facility
How to make a cruise ship #Covid19 problem worse by sending them to unprepared private hospitals where HCW will get sick & spread the disease. It is madness.
My initial response from yesterday, Sat 28th March to cruise ships patients bringing #covid19 into Perth PRIVATE hospitals. On first