Spend more time with your patients
Are you happy with our Australian health service providers? According to a recent survey, the majority of you remain pleased with providers and the work they do. Data released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, showed 80% felt their health professional always or often, spend enough time with them, listened carefully to them and had shown them respect.
Are you happy with our Australian health service providers? According to a recent survey, the majority of you remain pleased with providers and the work they do.
Data released last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, showed 80% felt their health professional always or often, spend enough time with them, listened carefully to them and had shown them respect.
While 95% of respondents believe their dental professionals spend enough time with them, 88% believe GPs have always, or often done so and 80% agree emergency department doctors and specialists had always, or often, done so.
However, 12% of Australians say rising dental costs caused a delay in seeing a specialist while 8% delayed, or didn’t see a General Practitioner (GP) due to costs.
Four out of five people had seen a GP in the past 12 months, with 18% of them for urgent medical care and more than 15% of respondents claimed they had waited longer than acceptable to get an appointment. A third of people had seen a medical specialist and half had seen a dental professional in this time.
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