November 2, 2007
Improved after-hours healthcare---ie., after-hours GP services--- is an important policy step and both parties have embraced it. It deals with an equity issue---proving after hours access for the working class who want to see doctors and so ease the burden on the hospitals.

Steve Bell
Larger problems face both parties' plans, in particular the medical workforce shortage, which means any new centres will inevitably struggle to find staff. So what is needed is a national strategic health plan. However, Abbott, and the Howard Government don't see the need for health reform, and are they content to merely increase the number of Medicare items. So the states are pushing ahead their strategic planning and reforms on their own and leaving the Commonwealth isolated.
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Gary,
another example of me-tooism--this time the Coalition copies the ALP GP superclinic plan. Is there any difference between theirs version of after hours health care?
Is the difference boiling down to swapping Howard for Rudd. That 's all time for a change means?
What are we changing to apart from this swap?