1
00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,080
Speaker 1: Changes are being made to fast track more foreign doctors

2
00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,160
Speaker 1: into the country. The Medical councils adding three new countries

3
00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:08,640
Speaker 1: to the list of those that we accept doctors from

4
00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:12,520
Speaker 1: really quickly. It's Chile, Luxembourg and Croatia. Doctor Buzzborella is

5
00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:14,800
Speaker 1: the chair of the General Practitioners outs Here or and

6
00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:15,240
Speaker 1: worth Us.

7
00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:17,360
Speaker 2: Morning Buzz, Good morning Heather.

8
00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,400
Speaker 1: So have we got doctors from those countries actually interested

9
00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:21,119
Speaker 1: in coming.

10
00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,680
Speaker 2: Here at that point? Look? I hope, I hope we do.

11
00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,040
Speaker 2: But more importantly, I hope once we get them, we

12
00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,760
Speaker 2: attract them, we can retain them. It's fine bringing doctors

13
00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:32,560
Speaker 2: into the country. God help is if being a top

14
00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,040
Speaker 2: on my accent time one of them. Sixty percent of

15
00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:38,040
Speaker 2: this country as doctors come from overseas. The problem is

16
00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,640
Speaker 2: that the Medical Council of data shows that within twelve

17
00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:44,080
Speaker 2: months of doctors arriving here, forty percent leave and by

18
00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,479
Speaker 2: two years sixty percent of left. So attracting is one thing,

19
00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:49,800
Speaker 2: and that's good, and it we've got incentives to do that.

20
00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,080
Speaker 2: That's great. What we need to work on next is

21
00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,200
Speaker 2: retaining those doctors and not simply being an immigration agency

22
00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:55,880
Speaker 2: for Australia.

23
00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally now, when we do when we fast track them.

24
00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:00,400
Speaker 1: How fast are we fast track them?

25
00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:04,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, your question, honestly don't know. Mine. It is that

26
00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,399
Speaker 2: we can shrink it down from a year or two

27
00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:08,840
Speaker 2: to two a matter of months, and that's really important.

28
00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:13,000
Speaker 2: We are easily on the underestimate five hundred GP short

29
00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:14,640
Speaker 2: in this country at the moment, on a good day,

30
00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,679
Speaker 2: probably one thousand GP short. So gosh, if we can

31
00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,840
Speaker 2: fastrack into a week, that would be brilliant. One needles

32
00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,760
Speaker 2: to say that that was fantasy. But the faster the better. Yeah.

33
00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,440
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Now I see the hospitals are getting slammed at

34
00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,440
Speaker 1: the moment by the winter illnesses. What about you not?

35
00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,000
Speaker 2: Likewise, we're being slammed at left, right, in the center.

36
00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,280
Speaker 2: But probably the biggest way of being slammed is the fact,

37
00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,800
Speaker 2: as I said, we are short. The demand is exceeding

38
00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:39,920
Speaker 2: the supply to meet it as a result of which

39
00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:41,840
Speaker 2: people are going to after hours and people are turning

40
00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,039
Speaker 2: up to the murderty departments, and we do not have

41
00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:47,760
Speaker 2: capacity in the secondary sector to look after the primary overflow.

42
00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,440
Speaker 2: So the entire health sector is being slammed, and we

43
00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,120
Speaker 2: being doctors, and there's no substitute for doctors. Either We

44
00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,360
Speaker 2: simply just need doctors who can diagnose and treat and

45
00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,920
Speaker 2: not miss them and that that's crucial. So it thumbs

46
00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,200
Speaker 2: up for the initiative, but look, let's work on the retention.

47
00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:06,880
Speaker 2: Is my summary on that good stuff.

48
00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,200
Speaker 1: Buzz, I really appreciate your time, Doctor Buzzbarell, Chair of

49
00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:10,240
Speaker 1: the General Practitioners.

50
00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,320
Speaker 2: Out here always for more from the Mic Asking Breakfast,

51
00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,800
Speaker 2: listen live to news talks it'd be from six am weekdays,

52
00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,080
Speaker 2: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.