• Long waiting times particularly in using Emergency Departments of public hospitals, • Cost of services, especially for specialist health care and in relation to public dental health services, • Lack of information and confusion about the health system, particularly the difference between publi...
Access Canberra will be given extra support to deal with increased service demands, greater costs related to licence plate production and postage, and additional staff to process transactions faster, costing $4.7 million. Access Canberra will get more staff to cope with service pressures. Photo: ...
Despite the presence or absence of health policies relating to entitlements to medical care, there are a range of barriers to accessing health care services, common to most refugees, independent of their visa status. Some of the barriers that have been identified are: • Long waiting times par...
Waiting times for public dental treatment in most, if not all, jurisdictions are unacceptably long (range 13–58 months). Few interpreter services exist for refugees seeking to access dental services. Conclusions: Access to dental services for refugees across Australia remains fragmented and limited,...
Cost was the most common (60%) reason given for being unable to access needed care, in contrast to waiting times or lack of appointments (47%) being most often nominated by the general population.12 Similarly, almost half of the disadvantaged sample reported not using or delaying use of med...
It was theorised that if a residential address was next to a GP or pharmacist, this would account for these travel times across the road network, as the analysis did not take into account time getting to the car, waiting in traffic, or parking. Travel times in Melbourne’s outer growth...
I’ve been waiting since May, possibly to get more surgery. But my surgeon, the two surgeons that I can see are in Adelaide, and I can’t go across the border, because it’s not considered like an emergency condition. So instead, I am basically being supplied with painkillers, which ...
The right of people with disability to enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health without discrimination on the basis of disability is enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Among its obl
National Framework for Child and Family Health Services—Secondary and Tertiary Services; COAG Health Council: Canberra, Australia, 2015. Hesson, A.; Fowler, C.; Rossiter, C.; Schmied, V. ‘Lost and confused’: Parent representative groups’ perspectives on child and family health services in ...
Many cities and regions across the globe are adopting some of these ideals, such as Baltimore and Portland in the USA, Vancouver and Calgary in Canada, Canberra in Australia, Birmingham and Windsor in the UK, Beijing and Chengdu in China, parts of New Zealand, the Philippines, and the ...