Australian Medical Association

AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, discusses the Federal Government's medical training announcement on ABC 2 News Breakfast with Joe O'Brien and Virginia Trioli

AMA President Dr Andrew Pesce discusses the Government's health reform plans at a Press Conference in Canberra.

Dr Pesce discusses the Government's health funding reform plan with Fran Kelly on Radio National Breakfast.

Transcript:  AMA President,  Dr Andrew Pesce, with Leon Delaney, Radio 2SM

Monday       15 February 2010

Subjects:    Coalition plan for public hospital management boards

AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce
Parliament House, Canberra, Wednesday 9 December 2009

Sydney Wednesday 14 October 2009

DR PESCE:  Well, thanks for coming. Well, here we go again. This is the first time I'm delivering this report card as the AMA President. But every year the AMA President gets here, delivers the Public Hospital Report Card, and every year the message is the same: things are getting worse.

The governments aren't up to the task of improving the ability of our public hospitals to meet the demands. And our report card shows that once again things are slowly getting worse. Every year governments meet, they have their agreements, but every year things get worse.

Our report card shows objectively that slowly things are deteriorating. Access in emergency departments is worse. Waiting times for elective surgery are worse. On all measures, public hospitals are gradually getting worse.

Subjects: AMA Priority Investment Plan for Australia’s Health System, GP Super Clinics, NSW Health Minister

Transcript of doorstop: AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce
Druitt St, Sydney, Thurday 27 August 2009
E&OE
Subjects: Media reports of Preventative Health Taskforce report, cash payments for nurses.

Dr Capolingua's farewell Presidential Address

JAMES LUSH: The first round of public hearings into the Federal Government's proposed changes to Medicare begins in Perth today. The Government plans to lift the income threshold for paying the Medicare surcharge to $100,000 for singles and $150,000 for couples.

Dr Rosanna Capolingua is the president of the Australian Medical Association, and joins us.

You're not very happy about this change at all, are you?