Wobbly floors, leaking ceilings and demountables: The health centres waiting for election promises

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Community health centres fear they have been left out of the Victorian election health funding blitz, and public health advocates say it is a wasted opportunity to reduce demand on emergency departments | heyracheddie

seem to be all about emergency departments, ICU and inpatient beds,” one Melbourne woman said in a survey of readers this month. “Where is the investment in outpatient services, to keep people out of hospital?”to study. But there have been few announcements for the community providers, and cohealth centres have said for years that they needed a $25 million rebuild to improve care and treat twice as many people.

“I’ve got clinicians in demountables. You can imagine how hard it is with conditions like that for me to compete, that’s why I’m losing staff,” Ferrie said. General practitioner Dr Christine Taylor works at the Hoddle Street cohealth just once a week, largely because there is no natural light in most of the clinical rooms.“We have quite thin walls. Sometimes you can become aware of conversations in rooms that are adjoining, particularly if people are hard of hearing ... It can be quite difficult to maintain confidentiality.”

Projects at three cohealth sites received government funding as part of the 2020 metropolitan health infrastructure fund, and the regional health infrastructure fund has separately supported regional community health.

 

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