Longer wait times expected as hospital staff furlough pushes Melbourne's health system to breaking point

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Victoria's growing COVID-19 outbreak may be forcing the state's already stretched healthcare system to breaking point, with hundreds of staff at one hospital furloughed and one doctor warning 'burnout is a very real risk'.

He said he had received encouragement from fellow healthcare workers to keep voicing his concerns, with many of his colleagues feeling they could not openly express their frustrations."I am anxious about what the next couple of weeks and beyond hold. We have a population that is much more aware of the issues but I'm also worried that they're very tired," he said.

Mr Hill said the constant cycle of lockdowns and outbreaks had given healthcare workers a grim outlook for the future."Those patterns are very depressing and frustrating for the troops out there when they know it's only going to get worse," he said.Joshua McCallum is a clinical nurse specialist at a Melbourne hospital and said the healthcare sector had been beaten down by the pandemic.

Mr McCallum was furloughed last year during an outbreak, and said the workload became untenable as staff struggled to keep up. "There wasn't a known risk in Shepparton, so at that point in time there was no reason to necessarily test that gentleman prior to his surgery," Ms Matson said on Sunday.While Danny Hill was not aware of the details of the recent outbreak, he reiterated that hospital staff followed all protocols stringently.

 

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I don’t understand the use of furlough in this article?

Well if the FedGov fossil fuel industry subsidies directed to hospital systems and health care workers funding instead then maybe health systems would not be under pressure all the time

Lol the system was f*cked way before covid and might be good if nurses stopped infecting each other too

Not surprising given the ridiculous wait times in most hospitals way before covid

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Give it a rest ItaButtrose we know you're propagandizing for ScottyDoesNothing Maybe give Gladysb a Call see when she plans to send down a few more disease ridden welshmen

Breaking point - for gods sake stop this rubbish- our icus are at 4%!!!!

Anybody that has been offered ANY vaccine and has refused and subsequently caught c19 ..no treatment Protestors..no treatment That should empty a few beds

Maybe have more than 1 nurse on duty. Are the rest doing tiktoks?

I heard the hospitals in Sydney were at breaking point two weeks ago.

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