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Emergency doctors fearful of impacts of elective surgery ‘blitz’
The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM; the College) holds grave concerns about the impact of a ‘blitz’ of elective surgeries on Tasmania’s struggling emergency health system. While ACEM recognises the importance of elective procedures and maintains that the government must deliver on its pre-election promise, there must also be immediate and commensurate investment in increasing in-patient capacity, to enable this to be successfully delivered.
This must include a focus on workforce sustainability across Tasmania’s hospital system, otherwise the increase in elective surgery will further negatively impact patients and healthcare workers in Tasmania’s already overwhelmed emergency departments (EDs).