Health reforms paper anniversary: Thoughts from a rural nurse practitioner

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Health reforms paper anniversary: Thoughts from a rural nurse practitioner

Nurse practitioner Chelsea Wilmott - Supplied image

Chelsea Willmott

Paper boat [Tolgart on iStock]
It's a paper anniversary for the central health agencies still experiencing the winds of change [Tolgart on iStock]

If you had been looking to buy a gift for the one-year anniversary of the health reforms on 1 July, it would have been paper. This is a happy coincidence, considering we as a newspaper are close scrutineers of the reforms. We asked a few people in the sector their thoughts on the following questions: “What areas of the reforms are you happy with? What is an area where progress is not what you anticipated? How well do you think the reform has been communicated to your part of the health system? Score out of 10.” Chelsea Wilmott is today’s contributor

Patients being asked if they are able to consider paying for private specialist services Overall, I feel the regionalisation of specialist servic, Chelsea Willmott 2023 portrait [supplied], Nurse practitioner Chelsea Willmott says general practice feels the heavy weight of letting people down