JAMES CROTTY, MR, Independent Labor for Pembroke
James Crotty the independent Labor Candidate for The Legislative Council seat of Pembroke today called on the State Government to improve access to health services on the Eastern Shore by establishing nurse led walk-in clinics.
Mr Crotty said, “The creation of such primary care clinics relieves the shortage of GP’s on the Eastern Shore and provides health service delivery to those most vulnerable. GP’s have an important role to play in health service delivery but the traditional visit to the doctor’s is not the only model for health service delivery in the modern age”.
“For example pharmacies can play a much bigger role in treating minor ailments”.
“We should look to changing community needs and not be bound by traditional strictures of service delivery”, Mr Crotty said.
Without proper planning to meet the needs an aging population Mr Crotty said he feared the proliferation of corporate medical clinics and the consequence of the community having to put up with the health service a company established for the purposes of profit decided was appropriate.
“Appropriate Health Care should not be solely determined by profitability,” Mr Crotty said.
Mr Crotty asked any interested persons to contact him at [email protected] or 0419 302 239 for further details.
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James Crotty
174 Macquarie Street
Hobart
