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Could this be the thin edge of the wedge…do they see
this as a way of banning independent midwifery too, or am I just being paranoid? Tania (who is aware that thankfully, we don’t have to train
as nurses any more to become a midwife, but the reality is that many of us are…) http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17070060%255E2682,00.html Nursing back-up under
attack INDEPENDENT nurse practitioners, who are
not made to report to doctors, should not be able to work in The comments come just days after The Advertiser reported the chronic GP
shortage has reached crisis point in the city's outer suburbs, with doctors
claiming GP patient ratios at 1:5521 in the Woodcroft area in the south and
1:7596 around Williamstown in the north. Interstate, particularly in Queensland where
doctor shortages are severe, there has been extensive debate about whether to
introduce independent nurse practitioners allowed to treat some patients
without answering to a doctor or hospital medical team to ease the strain on
the system. "We would strongly oppose that move here in
SA," Dr Cain said.
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